NAB Product News
Aspera manages high-speed delivery via the Web
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Apr 10, 2008 - 10:45:14 AM

Booths: S211LMR, SU15509

As the date for transition from analog to digital nears, broadcasters are moving increasingly to digital workflow. At NAB, Aspera will demonstrate the latest version of its fasp 2.0 platform, which incorporates tools for management of high-speed content delivery throughout a network via a centralized Web interface. What makes the platform especially suited to sports-broadcasting applications is that it is robust under field conditions; in addition, files transfer at extremely fast speeds between workgroups and can be tracked end-to-end.

Administrators can monitor and control individual transfers, including speed and bandwidth. The fasp architecture is differentiated by its “adaptive rate control” feature, which allows users to manage the transfer bandwidth rates for fast, fixed speeds or fair rates for “sharing” bandwidth with other traffic. Essentially an FTP-replacement technology, fasp can provide 100x improvement over standard FTP/TCP protocols for transfers.

Aspera is working with many companies to provide the integrated-file-transfer technology embedded into their IT infrastructures from ingest to production to distribution.