Aspera’s Michelle Munson Speaks at SMPTE Conference

Introduces New Model for High Speed File Delivery Services with Guaranteed Delivery Times and Differentiated Service Levels

Houston, TX (February 12, 2009) -- Michelle Munson, President and Co-Founder of Aspera Inc., the leading developer of breakthrough high speed file transfer technology for digital content delivery, today introduced a new model for building high speed file delivery services supporting guaranteed delivery times and differentiated services levels.

Ms. Munson spoke at the SMPTE and VSF 2008 Joint Conference located at the InterContinental Houston Hotel, Houston, TX focusing on "Distributing Digital Content in a Networked World". The presentation introduced a new software architecture platform that underpins a practical economic and technical model for commercial-grade electronic file delivery services capable to provide the same scale, predictability, and differentiated service levels as physical courier services.

About Aspera

Aspera Inc. is a privately held software development company located in Emeryville, CA, creating innovative high-performance bulk data transport technologies. Aspera’s fasp™ 2.0 software transport platform provides maximum speed, complete security, and breakthrough bandwidth control at global distances. With several thousand endpoint and server licenses installed world wide, fasp™ software products are becoming the industry standard for high-speed transfer of digital content in the media and entertainment marketplace, and quickly becoming the technology of choice for large enterprise-wide, Fortune 500 companies. Current customer deployments support transfers between six continents, and the dramatic savings in time, cost, and productivity have resulted in major companies such as Microsoft, Isilon Systems and Hewlett Packard to partner and integrate Aspera software into joint technology solutions. Products include file transfer server/cluster software, desktop and web clients, and complete transfer management applications for centralized scheduling, tracking, bandwidth control, and monitoring, as well as a flexible, open SDK for embedded use.