Defining how TCP on a LAN compared to FileCatalyst on a LAN can alter line speed and, ultimately, productivity

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

2. 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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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, email, web browsing
small ad-hoc transfers (HTTP, FTP, SFTP, SMTP etc)
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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
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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
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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
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FileCatalyst completely saturates the pipe by
sending multiple blocks of data = Increased
transfer speed

8. Bandwidth Improvement with FileCatalyst
*NA = North America
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Accelerating File Transfers

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
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11. Our Clients
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12. Questions?