1. Beyond FTP & hard drives: Accelerating LAN file transfers

2. File Transfer Issues with TCP Acceleration with FileCatalyst
Agenda
Corporate Overview
TCP Overview
File Transfer Issues with TCP
Acceleration with FileCatalyst
TCP on LAN vs. FileCatalyst on LAN
Demo of FileCatalyst Direct
UDP File Transfer Considerations
Questions 2
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3. Corporate Overview What we do?
Provide Enterprise Grade Software solutions for moving large data around the world
Patent pending accelerated file transfers via our unique UDP based approach
Simplify complicated large file transfers for the enterprise end user.
Provide all the tools for fast integration into existing enterprise infrastructure
Provide all the management, security and monitoring tools required to move large data across corporate networks
Provide integration solutions with all major cloud vendors, including, Amazon, OpenStack and Windows Azure
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4. TCP Overview
Provides reliability, error checking, ordered packets in a stream
Congestion control built in
Internet could not survive without it
Works well for most internet traffic, , web browsing small ad-hoc transfers (HTTP, FTP, SFTP, SMTP etc) 4
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5. Efficient Transport Protocol
FileCatalyst transfers files at full link speed:
UDP with proprietary retransmission and congestion control 
Patent pending algorithm built from the ground up in-house
Transfer rates up to 10 Gbps (with encryption) using commodity hardware
Not affected by latency and speed degrades, linearly with packet loss
Ability to fully leverage multi-core CPU architecture
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6. File Transfer Issues with TCP
Flow control limits transmission window, causes dead air with high latency
Very aggressive in response to network congestion, cannot tune in application layer
Result is less than ideal performance on wireless, satellite, or long haul links
Can be tuned but still not ideal for many-one, one-many
Data Packet
TCP is a very serial process.
Each packet of data must be received before a new packet is sent = Decreased transfer speed
Source File
Destination File
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7. Acceleration with FileCatalyst
Ideal for bulk file transfer
Predictable - Can send at a perfect rate
Not affected by latency or packet loss
Congestion Control implemented in application layer
Tunable congestion control aggression
Instantly detect link capacity
Source File
Destination File
FileCatalyst completely saturates the pipe by sending multiple blocks of data = Increased transfer speed
Acknowledgments 7
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8. Accelerating File Transfers
Bandwidth Improvement with FileCatalyst
Accelerating File Transfers
*NA = North America
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9. Demo of FileCatalyst
Server and HotFolder

10. UDP File Transfer Considerations
Plays fair with other traffic on network
10 Gbps file transfer, single stream. Found by independent study to be only solution to maintain 10 Gbps with high latency and packet loss.
High performance for many small files
Security, reliability, automatic resume
Automation tools, SDK, central management 10
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11. Our Clients
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12. Questions?