In this webinar, President and Co-Founder of FileCatalyst, John Tkaczewski illustrates additional features available within the FileCatalyst suite that can further optimize your file transfers beyond the UDP protocol.

1. Webinar Feb 23, 2016
Going Beyond UDP
Acceleration

2. John Tkaczewski, President of FileCatalyst
Blog: http://filecatalyst.com/blog/
Past Webinars: http://filecatalyst.com/resources/webinars/

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• FileCatalyst transfers files at full link speed:
• UDP with proprietary retransmission and congestion control
• Patented 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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Integration with leading Cloud Storage like Amazon S3

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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
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
Acknowledgments
Data Packet

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Why Faster?
• 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
Acknowledgments
FileCatalyst completely saturates the pipe by
sending multiple blocks of data = Increased
transfer speed

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7. Demo

8. Method Time
FTP-Filezilla (no checksum) ~ 6 minutes
Plain UDP (with checksum) ~ 24 sec
Single File: compressed video - 600 MB
Sample Link speed: 400Mbps, 160ms delay

9. Method Time
ZIP, IZArc 4.1.6 ~ 45 sec
RAR, WinRar 4.01 64 bit ~ 25 sec
Dealing with multiple files.
Benchmark Compression Speed: 137MB, 71 files in 10 folders
Compression requires disk space and takes time.

10. Method Time
FTP-Filezilla (no checksum) ~ 2min 10 sec
Plain UDP (no checksum) ~ 1min 20 sec
Plain UDP (with checksum) ~ 1min 40 sec
Multi-Client (with checksum) ~42 sec
Single Archive (with checksum, ) ~18 sec.
Multi-Client (with checksum and zip
compression)
~ 18 sec.
Sample Data set: 47 files, 261 MB, file sizes 1MB-50MB (compressed)
Sample Link speed: 400Mbps, 160ms delay
Features Unique to
FileCatalyst.
No additional disk
space required

11. Other Options:
• Transferring File Deltas (rsync) Moving only changes detected in the file
• Save bandwidth (Savings for cloud and Satellite links)
• Increased Processing time
• Directory Streaming (transferring n-files)
• File System Events, no need to scan complex folders

12. Questions?