Beyond FTP & hard drives: Accelerating LAN file transfers

File Transfer Issues with TCP Acceleration with FileCatalyst 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 2 | © Copyright FileCatalyst, 2013

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 | © Copyright FileCatalyst, 2012

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) 4 | © Copyright FileCatalyst, 2013

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 | © Copyright FileCatalyst, 2012

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 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 6 | © Copyright FileCatalyst, 2013

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 Source File Destination File FileCatalyst completely saturates the pipe by sending multiple blocks of data = Increased transfer speed Acknowledgments 7 | © Copyright FileCatalyst, 2013

Accelerating File Transfers Bandwidth Improvement with FileCatalyst Accelerating File Transfers *NA = North America | © Copyright FileCatalyst, 2012

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 10 | © Copyright FileCatalyst, 2013

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