Our Company

Aspera, Inc. develops breakthrough software transfer technologies to achieve optimal performance and cost savings using existing network infrastructure. Aspera is a profitable, privately held, technology development company based in Emeryville, California. In addition to our software products and SDK platform, we provide engineering services to implement our products and transfer technology in small to large business enterprises. Aspera welcomes opportunities for strategic alliances or partnerships with companies large and small. For more information, please contact us.

The name Aspera was selected by the company’s co-founders, Michelle Munson (originally from Kansas USA) and Serban Simu (originally from Bucharest, Romania), to express the universal ideals of hope and aspiration through challenges. From the Latin roots "asper" meaning "rough" or "hard", and "spera" meaning "hope", and mottos like "ad astra per aspera" (to the stars through hard ways), Aspera is descriptive of the company’s aspiration to create substantial core technologies that solve the difficult problems in network data delivery.

Our Customers

fasp™ was market launched in early 2004 and has become the market leader for high-speed data transfer in media and entertainment applications, and is deployed throughout a variety of industries, as well as government and defense markets, on six continents. In Media and Entertainment, Aspera installations cover several of the major Hollywood studios and service companies, post-production houses, broadcasters and other content providers, cable, satellite, and on-demand media networks, and computer game developers.

Aspera deployments support data transfer in defense/intelligence operations around the world, the automobile industry, pharmaceutical development, software distribution, scientific data distribution, high technology and global IT solutions companies, and transfers between many global outsourcing companies and their US partners in finance, data processing, and engineering design.

The market need for a flexible, next generation file transfer technology is pervasive and exploding as file sizes increase, network capacities grow, and users increasingly exchange data and media. As an all-software platform deployable on any standard computing device, fasp™ is capable of filling the next-generation need, providing optimal data transfer in any application, over any Internet network, from consumer broadband to gigabit core.