aug2015 webinar-file catalyst v3.5
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Presenter
John Tkaczewski, President and Co-Founder FileCatalyst / Unlimi-Tech
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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FileCatalyst Direct – Release Notes
Link to Release Notes
http://support.filecatalyst.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/121/13/filecatalyst-direct-release-notes