In mass content delivery applications, the distance-neutral high throughput of Aspera transfers is a performance and cost breakthrough for large file delivery. Aspera provides service providers and content delivery networks cost savings and a transformation of the user's experience that are not possible with conventional file delivery.

Aspera software’s distance-neutral transfer performance eliminates the requirement to locate content close to users for better throughputs, and achieves full utilization of the last mile bandwidth. The distance-neutral fast throughput reduces the peak concurrency load on content servers by serving each transfer faster, and allows "peak demand" to be spread over geographically-distributed servers. Instead of replicating content to thousands of servers at the network edge, service providers, and CDN's can distribute the transfer load among only a few strategically placed data centers.

In addition to significant cost savings, Aspera software enables new revenue models through dramatically faster transfers and on-the-fly speed and bandwidth priority changes. For instance, a movie download queue can dynamically devote the entirety of a user's bandwidth to the current purchase, and ramp up other downloads as the priority download completes. Providers have end-to-end visibility into individual transfer performance and bandwidth utilization for superior quality control and customer support.

Products

For Service Providers, the Aspera Enterprise Server is the server product that handles all file transfer tasks with minimal amount of servers, while providing exceptional performance and manageability.

For End Users, the Aspera Connect is the client product to transfer with Aspera Enterprise Server. It can progressively download and play back video independent of network conditions and global distances, in contrast to traditional streaming or progressive download applications that glitch or collapse as the network congests, and require nearby servers for faster downloads and better performance.