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Overview

Critical intelligence and defense applications rely upon rich satellite imagery and surveillance video to be collected, stored as digital files and moved as rapidly as possible, over ultra-long distance and often unreliable connections. In use and accredited for SIPRNET and JWICS, Aspera’s fasp™ software has been thoroughly vetted by the intelligence community for large data transfers over even the most difficult military networks and is deployed in support of mission-critical operations, transferring terabytes of data every day.

 

Benefits

  • Enable large file exchanges on even the most challenging networks plagued with high packet loss ratios and extended round trip delays. Aspera fasp™ achieves full utilization of available bandwidth on links of 500 ms RTT and 30% packet loss, and higher.

  • Effectively replace physical transport of hardware devices containing file-based intelligence with high-speed data transfer at global distances.

  • Provide field units simple, lightweight, access-on-demand software solutions capable of full link capacity transfer rates over networks ranging from Kilobits to Gigabits per second.

  • Utilize proven, secure and reliable transfer technology, vetted by the intelligence community and accredited for SIPRNET and JWICS.

 

Applications

  • Intelligence Data Collection —  Aspera software is used to move satellite imagery and surveillance video in predictable time frames from operational locations to central command and other analysis centers. With lives literally at stake, intelligence agencies are able to collect, analyze and distribute mission-critical information to the field faster and more reliably than ever before. Agencies such as JFCOM, INSCOM, NGA, NSA, and multiple government contractors have deployed Aspera software in support of critical field missions and analysis.

  • Intelligence Data Archival —  Often replacing the costly shipment of hardware equipment from remote locations, back to bases and facilities in the US, Aspera software allows for secure, reliable and ultra high-speed archival of intelligence data, directly from the points of capture. For example, Aspera fasp™ is a key technology driving a mission-critical operation for the DOD that transfers multiple Terabytes of data daily from multiple war theater locations back to analysis centers in the eastern US over high speed satellite networks. Each satellite link is fully utilized by a single Aspera transfer running continuously at 130 Mbps. The deployment replaced multi-million dollar flights of physical hard drives, and even more important, brings the data back many times faster for immediate analysis.

  • Transfer over Extremely Challenged Networks — Multiple government agencies and private contractors have turned to Aspera software to transfer files over multi-hop satellite networks and RF networks having impossibly large round-trip times and packet loss rates. A study by one agency concluded that Aspera software was “infinitely faster” than FTP and traditional transfer mechanisms over these highly challenging networks common in the military theater.