Webinar: Questions and Answers?
July 17, 2014

Introduction
• John Tkaczewski, President and Co-Founder
• Check out our blog: http://www.filecatalyst.com/blog
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What is File Transfer Acceleration?
• File transfer acceleration technology allows large files, or “big data” to be sent quickly over large geographical distances without being impeded by network impairments such as latency and packet loss
• This is accomplished by transferring files using the UDP protocol instead of the TCP protocol, the protocol used for FTP and SFTP
• Reliability and congestion control is added to UDP at the application layer thus it doesn’t sacrifice its other desirable properties
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Why is UDP faster than FTP / TCP?
The main difference between UDP and TCP is that UDP wastes no time communicating about the receipt of a block of data so that regardless of network latency, data transmission remains constant.
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How is your UDP different from other
UDP based accelerated file transfer ?
• Speed – Only vendor that can achieve 10Gbps speeds
• File Deltas – Ability to transfer only the changes. Built transparently into the transport
• Multi-functional product lines. Single product will provide many functions ex: Data Replication and Web Plug-in are bundled within
FileCatalyst Direct. Or Email Distribution and Web based Folder sharing is built-in to FileCatalyst Workflow.
• Flexible licensing – either “All inclusive” or “A la carte” , no per seat cost, unlimited client distribution
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Why do I need Workflow and Direct?
• Direct – Point to Point. Includes Desktop App (like Filezilla),
HotFolder (Automation), Web applets, CLI and SDK
• Workflow - For the web. Web portal for file transfers. Includes: File
Submission, Email Distribution, Web based Folder sharing
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How can you guarantee file delivery?
• MD5 checksum – bit by bit comparison is done after transfer
• Transfer with temporary file name. Ex: MediaFile123.mxf.fctemp
• File Delivery receipt in PDF or XML format (in Workflow only)
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Can you resume file transfers?
• Resume can be done at any block (32MB default)
• MD5 checksum – bit by bit comparison is done on the partials before resume operation can be started
• File Delta – Rsync can be done on a file that has grown.
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Are there any limits?
• There are no known theoretical limits on the UDP transport.
• In production, we transfer single files up-to 8 TB in size
• In production, we transfer file sets containing up-to 4 million files
• For file transfer speeds, We have a number of 10Gbps production deployments. On the low end, we test with speeds as slow as
128Kbps.
• We test and have deployments with up-to 2000 milliseconds
(2 seconds!) of latency and 10% pocket loss
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Tell me about the cloud...
• FileCatalyst is an ideal solution to move files in and from the cloud.
• All our products have been designed to run on most public clouds:
AWS, Azure, OpenStack etc...
• Through our cloud partner ComputeNext - we provide SaaS packages.
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Upcoming Events
- ONS 2014 - Off shore North Seas, Stavanger, Norway (Aug 25-28)
- IBC 2014, RAI, Amsterdam (September 12-16)
And of course don’t forget our monthly webinars...
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Thank you!
Questions?