Beyond FTP & hard drives: Accelerating LAN file transfers

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

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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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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, email, web browsing small ad-hoc transfers (HTTP, FTP, SFTP, SMTP etc)

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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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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

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TCP is a very serial process. Each packet of data must be received before a new packet is sent = Decreased transfer speed

Source FileDestination

File

Acknowledgments

Data Packet

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

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Source FileDestination

File

Acknowledgments

FileCatalyst completely saturates the pipe by sending multiple blocks of data = Increased transfer speed

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*NA = North America

Bandwidth Improvement with FileCatalyst

Accelerating File Transfers

Demo of FileCatalyst

Server and HotFolder

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

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Our Clients

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Questions?