FileCatalyst President and Co-founder, John Tkaczewski for an up close and personal introduction to what's new with FileCatalyst Direct 3.5.

1. Webinar: An Introduction to FileCatalyst Direct v3.5
August 20th, 2015 at 11:00AM Eastern Time

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Presenter
John Tkaczewski, President and Co-Founder
FileCatalyst / Unlimi-Tech

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Agenda
• What is FileCatalyst?
• File Transfer Issues with TCP
• Acceleration with FileCatalyst
• Speed Improvements with FileCatalyst
• Welcome to FileCatalyst Direct v3.5
• Major new features
• Demo
• Review Release Notes
• Questions

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What is FileCatalyst?
FileCatalyst transfers files at full link speed:
UDP with proprietary retransmission and congestion control
Patented algorithm built from the ground up in-house
Transfer rates up to 10Gbps (with encryption) using commodity hardware
Not affected by latency and speed degrades, linearly with packet loss
Ability to fully leverage multi-core CPU architecture
Integration with leading Cloud Storage like Amazon S3

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File transfer Issues with TCP
• Flow control limits transmission window, causes dead air with high latency
• Very aggressive in response to network congestion, cannot tune in application layer
• Result is less than ideal performance on wireless, satellite, or long haul links
• Can be tuned but still not ideal for many-one, one-many
TCP is a very serial process.
Each packet of data must be received before a
new packet is sent = Decreased transfer speed
Source File
Destination
File
Acknowledgments
Data Packet

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Acceleration with FileCatalyst
• Ideal for bulk file transfer
• Predictable - Can send at a perfect rate
• Not affected by latency or packet loss
• Congestion Control implemented in application layer
• Tunable congestion control aggression
• Instantly detect link capacity
Source File
Destination
File
Acknowledgments
FileCatalyst completely saturates the pipe by
sending multiple blocks of data = Increased
transfer speed

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Speed improvement with FileCatalyst

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FileCatalyst Direct v3.5

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FileCatalyst Direct v3.5
List of Major new Features:
• Cloud Integration Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage (Sept 2015)
• Better support for Growing Files in HotFolder for Live event production
• Improved, packaging and install for MacOS
• C++ Client API
• Transfer Agent – shortcuts and a new certificate valid until July 2017
• Improvements on AIX, accelerated uploads and downloads
• Improvements to Central

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Demo

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FileCatalyst Direct – Release Notes
Link to Release Notes
http://support.filecatalyst.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/121/13/filecatalyst-direct-
release-notes

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Questions?