Aspera’s fasp™ transport technology is an emerging standard for the high-speed movement of large files over wide area networks (WANs). Hollywood studios, major broadcasters, sports leagues, government entities and corporations use Aspera software for the business critical transport of their digital assets on a daily basis—some of them moving in excess of one terabyte per day over their WAN infrastructure.

With a new suite of desktop and browser-based transfer applications, enhanced automation and advanced scheduling capabilities, new user and group management functionality compatible with industry standard directories and more core technology breakthroughs including patent-pending adaptive disk rate control for optimal end-to-end throughput, Aspera delivers the next stage in the evolution of its high performance file transfer environment and further enables a global, digital production, collaboration and distribution ecosystem.

At a glance, the fasp™ 2.5 software release introduces the following enhancements to Aspera’s high performance file transfer tools:

• New suite of desktop and browser-based transfer applications

• Enhanced transfer automation and advanced scheduling capabilities

• Complete, enterprise-scale transfer policy management

• Comprehensive, end-to-end tracking and reporting

• Enterprise-scale collaborative file transfer support

• Third-party workflow extensions (watermarking, transcoding and more)

• Patent-pending technology advances including disk-based rate control

• Multi-Gbps transfer speeds at global distances on commodity hardware
  

Beta versions of the Aspera Client, Aspera Point-to-Point and Aspera Enterprise Server version 2.5 transfer applications are available for Windows platforms. Request your beta software by contacting our sales team.

Find out more in the Aspera Summer 2009 Releases brochure available below: