SAN FRANCISCO, Macworld 2010 (566-D) – February 11, 2010 – From the show floor of the Macworld 2010 conference, high-speed file transfer expert Aspera today unveiled its new mobile transport technology, fasp-AIR. This new product enables faster data transfer speeds for wireless networks, and is a natural evolution of Aspera’s industry-leading high-performance transport protocol fasp™ (fast and secure protocol). Fasp-AIR will allow Aspera customers to achieve high-speed file transfers over wireless networks through an all-new iPhone / iPad transfer app and provide opportunities for application developers to directly embed the technology.

The result of several months of research and development focused on validating the properties of its innovative fasp transport technology to perform under the demanding conditions of wireless networks, fasp-AIR achieves significant performance improvements for upload and download speeds over 3G, LTE and 802.11 g/n. The first software technology of its kind, fasp-AIR transfers at bandwidth capacity and achieves 3G file transfer speeds on average three times faster than conventional HTTP. Transfers over 802.11 networks connected to long distance WANs, such as mobile clients downloading from distant servers, are 10-100X faster than traditional TCP transports.

“We are extending our own software ecosystem to enable mobile users, and committed to enabling multiple app developers with better, more efficient ways of transporting data to and from the devices,” explained Michelle Munson, president and co-founder of Aspera. “In addition, this technology will further increase performance for computer users that need to rely on wireless connections for their Aspera transfers.”

How to Get fasp-AIR

Fasp-AIR is available for beta use via an uploader app for the iPhone that enables users to move content generated by the device (pictures and videos) to mobile-enabled Aspera servers and will be generally available in the first half of 2010. This application will allow Aspera customers to collaborate in new ways. For example, broadcasters who already have programs in place that leverage user-generated content can offer their contributors a quicker and more reliable way to share pictures and videos directly from their iPhone, by uploading them at maximum speed to Aspera content ingest servers.

Aspera is previewing an embeddable software library that will allow app developers to integrate superior transport capabilities to their own applications such as faster and more predictable downloads.

Product Features

• Designed for 3G networks with high RTT (round trip time) and packet loss, fasp-AIR achieves on average three times the speed of regular TCP for today’s 3G networks, and utilizes the full bandwidth capacity.

• Applied to wireless WAN networks, fasp-AIR technology enables full utilization of the available bandwidth, regardless of delays, losses and network hops, achieving throughputs more than 10 to 100 times the speed of TCP on double-band 802.11n over networks with high packet loss and demonstrating great resilience to low signal strength, achieving over 10 times the speed of TCP on low-strength 802.11g/n.

• Aspera software is also designed to play well with other network traffic, alleviating bottlenecks on the already congested wireless networks and allowing content to be delivered with low-background trickle or high-priority foreground policies.

Aspera’s new fasp-AIR will be on display at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, booth 566-D in the Special Interest Enterprise & Business Solutions Area, along with Aspera’s complete portfolio of high-performance file transfer solutions for Mac OS X.