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Aspera Showcases Aspera Console
by | Sep 12, 2008 - 12:11:47 PM

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Aspera is showcasing Aspera Console, an enterprise-scale management platform that allows media professionals to monitor, control and automate high-speed Aspera transfers. Aspera is also showcasing the latest generation of its industry-standard high-performance fasp file transfer solutions, with enhanced security, improved usability and more integration options.

Aspera Console is designed for multi-user access and allows administrators to easily set up groups of users with capabilities appropriate to their organizational role and configurable by transfer path. For example, a group of transfer operators can be enabled to activate and monitor their own transfers on permitted paths, while view-only users can be granted monitoring and reporting capability alone.

"Aspera Console has been developed in close collaboration with our major media customers in an effort to meet their needs to scale out Aspera high-speed transfer within their organization and with their partners," said Michelle Munson, Aspera president and co-founder. "We are very excited about the results and look forward to sharing the new product with the broader market place, and building on the platform into the future."

Hundreds of organizations across a variety of industries, including government agencies and the major Hollywood studios, rely on Aspera for the business-critical transport of their digital assets, while maximizing network bandwidth and IT infrastructure investments. By facilitating a successful transition to all-digital operations, Aspera is empowering individuals and corporations to dramatically increase productivity, minimize operational costs, expand revenues and explore new business models.

Aspera personnel will be on-hand for non-stop presentations at IBC 2008, Hall 12P, in Booth A40. In addition to the new Aspera Console, demonstrations will also highlight the following new capabilities recently added to Aspera's high-performance file transfer solutions:

-- Encryption at Rest - an extension of Aspera transport security provides secure storage for valuable digital assets as they move across untrusted endpoints in an enterprise, multi-company supply chain, or content distribution network.

-- Virtual Link - a patent-pending technology building on Aspera's adaptive rate control takes enterprise-wide bandwidth management to the next level by allocating and maintaining bandwidth targets for all transfers to an Aspera server or server farm, or by individual user.

The technology ensures that transfers maintain, but do not exceed, the allocated bandwidth, receive a fair allocation of this bandwidth, and achieve stable, high throughput, even as many concurrent transfers share the same path. Individual transfers can be prioritized or given a guaranteed speed as needed.

-- HTTP Fallback - to ensure universal connectivity in highly restrictive networks, HTTP fallback provides a seamless alternate transfer path for Aspera Connect clients, allowing transfers to run over HTTP with complete proxy support.

The Aspera fasp 2.0 SDK has been extended with a redistributable core for all major operating systems and Java, .NET, C++, SOAP and SQL interfaces for embedding fasp transport in third party applications. Media service buses such as IBM Media Hub and the popular cineSync remote review and approval system are introducing integrations of Aspera transport for the first time at IBC 2008. Aspera technology is also showcased by Microsoft within the Interactive Media Manager platform (IMM) and by Isilon Systems as a native application for OneFS clustered storage.