Aspera's software solves the fundamental problems that plague transfers of large data sets between locations. Using traditional FTP, transfers are slow and unreliable, use a small fraction of expensive bandwidth, and slow down unpredictably. Users have little to no control over transfer speed, bandwidth usage, or transfer finish time. In contrast, Aspera's transfers achieve maximum speed and full bandwidth utilization, independent of the network distance or conditions.

Aspera transfers are 10-25X faster than standard FTP on T1 links to India and China, 20-100X faster on intercontinental DS3's (45 Mbps), and usually 100X faster on cross-country gigabit networks. Transfer speeds are precisely predictable within the available bandwidth, even over high-delay and very lossy network paths. Available bandwidth is fully utilized, and users have complete control over the finish time of individual transfers and the bandwidth used relative to other traffic.

Applications include:

• Collaborative digital workflows depending on high-speed transfers between globally-distributed teams, such as software, engineering design, and game development teams.
• Production/post-production file transfers in media and entertainment, such as high-speed dailies and post-production file transfers for Hollywood studios and their international partners and vendors.
• High speed off-site data backup using the Internet or private IP networks. Aspera deployments provide high-speed backups for automobile, pharmaceutical, financial, publishing, and entertainment companies. Users are freed to locate their off-site data center anywhere in the world without jeopardizing transfer performance. On a cross-US OC-3 (155 Mbps) link, for instance, Aspera transfers 10GB in 10 minutes.

Products

Aspera Scp for Point-to-Point and Scp Client are the applications for point-to-point transfer. Aspera Scp for Point-to-Point is a simple file server that accepts single connection from either Aspera Scp Client or Aspera Scp for Point-to-Point itself.