Aug2015 webinar-file catalyst v3.5

Webinar: An Introduction to FileCatalyst Direct v3.5August 20th, 2015 at 11:00AM Eastern Time

© Copyright FileCatalyst, 2015

Presenter

John Tkaczewski, President and Co-Founder FileCatalyst / Unlimi-Tech


Agenda• What is FileCatalyst?

• File Transfer Issues with TCP

• Acceleration with FileCatalyst

• Speed Improvements with FileCatalyst

• Welcome to FileCatalyst Direct v3.5

• Major new features

• Demo

• Review Release Notes

• Questions


What is FileCatalyst?FileCatalyst transfers files at full link speed:

UDP with proprietary retransmission and congestion control

Patented algorithm built from the ground up in-house

Transfer rates up to 10Gbps (with encryption) using commodity hardware

Not affected by latency and speed degrades, linearly with packet loss

Ability to fully leverage multi-core CPU architecture

Integration with leading Cloud Storage like Amazon S3


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

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

Data Packet


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

Acknowledgments

FileCatalyst completely saturates the pipe by sending multiple blocks of data = Increased transfer speed


Speed improvement with FileCatalyst


FileCatalyst Direct v3.5


FileCatalyst Direct v3.5List of Major new Features:

• Cloud Integration Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage (Sept 2015)

• Better support for Growing Files in HotFolder for Live event production

• Improved, packaging and install for MacOS

• C++ Client API

• Transfer Agent – shortcuts and a new certificate valid until July 2017

• Improvements on AIX, accelerated uploads and downloads

• Improvements to Central


Demo


FileCatalyst Direct – Release Notes

Link to Release Notes

http://support.filecatalyst.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/121/13/filecatalyst-direct-release-notes





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