Transport
At the heart of Aspera’s solutions is the patented FASP® transport software technology. The groundbreaking protocol overcomes the traditional limitations of public internet connections and off-the-shelf hardware to maximize the usage of available bandwidth. The result is to deliver unmatched transfer speeds, end-to-end security, 100% reliability and exceptional bandwidth control.
Technology you can rely on
Maximum speed and reliability
To achieve speeds that are hundreds of times faster than FTP and HTTP, FASP employs existing WAN infrastructure and commodity hardware.
Security-rich protection
To assure exceptional security for business-critical digital assets, Aspera uses open standards cryptography for user authentication, data encryption and data integrity verification.
Software-only design
To make adoption and usage easy, Aspera is a software-only application protocol that runs on commodity hardware and over standard, unmodified IP.
The features of Aspera technology
Extraordinary bandwidth control
The bandwidth utilization algorithm in FASP enables fast, automatic discovery of the bandwidth capacity and its full utilization while remaining fair to other traffic.
Configurable "fair play" to standard TCP traffic
While FASP can fill any available bandwidth, it also includes an intelligent adaptive transmission-rate control mechanism that throttles down for fairness to standard TCP traffic, and automatically ramps back up to fully utilize the unused bandwidth.
Flexible and open architecture
Aspera supports interoperable file and directory transfers between all major operating systems and cloud platforms, and provides a complete, modern software API.
Activity reporting and monitoring
Aspera provides end-to-end transfer progress reporting and detailed performance statistics for real-time monitoring and reporting, and for custom pre- and post-transfer processing.
Aspera File Transfer Calculator
Estimate performance gains over any distance or network condition using Aspera versus TCP
Streaming
FASPStream transport technology is a revolutionary alternative for error-free transport of any bit rate video over any distance on unmanaged internet with near zero latency. Built on FASP, this streaming technology provides fully reliable in-order byte stream delivery for live feeds and growing files over commodity IP networks using the new streaming architecture. Learn about streaming for video (PDF, 963 KB) →
Cloud
Built into our cloud offerings is the unique Aspera direct-to-cloud technology. It integrates FASP high-speed transport with the underlying multi-part HTTP interfaces of the cloud object storage layer, enabling the fastest file uploads and downloads on all major cloud platforms. Aspera cloud products also include key transfer management features such as pause, automatic resume, reporting and encryption over the wire and at rest.
Autoscale
The Aspera transfer platform includes autoscale capabilities for dynamic, real-time scale out of transfer capacity. They include automatic start/stop of transfer server instances, available idle instances, automatic balancing of client requests and configurable service levels to manage transfer load per instance. The functionality is complemented by a scale out data store for distributed collection, aggregation and reporting of all transfer details across the auto scale cluster.
