FileCatalyst President and co-founder, John Tkaczewski, provides an introduction to one of the company's most popular products. In use across a variety of different industries, Workflow allows users to send files efficiently.

1. Introduction to FileCatalyst Workflow
May 21, 2015 Webinar at 11:00AM ET

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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
• FileCatalyst Workflow 101
• Demo
• 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 10 Gbps (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 Workflow
Web-based file transfer File Submission
• Sending Files to Email Address
• Web accessible folders

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System Requirements
Server
• Multi-core CPU with 2Ghz+ per core with
minimum 2 cores
• 6GB RAM or more
• 80GB of disk space (excluding user data)
• Operating system: Windows 2003 or higher,
MacOSX 10.7 or higher, Linux, Solaris
• Architecture: 64-bit
• Tomcat 7.x (Tomcat 8.x currently not
supported); other containers are not
supported.
• MySQL 5.0 or higher with admin rights
• Access to SMTP (Outgoing mail server)
• Oracle Java SE 7 or higher (64-bit; OpenJDK
not supported)
• Internet connectivity: Sub-domain or
dedicated static IP with proper firewall rules
Client
• Recent web browser such as Internet
Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera or
Chrome (Chrome is not supported on
Mac)
• Email account to receive emails (for
recipient only).
• Java Runtime Environment 7 (JRE) or
later (if using acceleration)
• Broadband Internet connection

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FileCatalyst Workflow 101
Core Components List
Secure Transport Java Applets, Form Upload (if no Java plugin), HotFolder,
Mobile and SDK
Intelligence Fields, Order Forms, Sites, Groups, Jobs, Status, File
Areas, Users

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File Transfer Options
Applets
Upload, download, file area
Protocol detection (UDP, TCP, HTTP) , retry and resume
Checksum and deltas
HotFolder
Uploads to either a new job or file area
Automation
Pre and post task
Folder synchronization
Bandwidth Schedule
Native Browser (W3C)
Form upload
HTTP links
When Java Plugin is not detected
2GB max file size
No retry and no resume
Mobile
• Uploads into file area
• Job Submission into any order form
• iOS and Android
Future Development
• HotFolder job downloads
• iOS job submission

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Workflow Components
Field
Meta data you wish to capture during the job submission process; Input types: Text, Text Area, Drop
Down (Select), Date, Quantity (Number)
Workflow Modifiers (Smart fields): Recipient Email, Recipient Email CC (Notification List), Site
Selector, Email list, Job Expiry, Download Password or automatically generated PIN
Order Form (Main Workflow logic)
Collection of fields (meta data) defined by the system admin
Job Fields or per file fields
Multiple order forms per user, a user can execute multiple workflows
Sites
Any FileCatalyst Direct Server or 3rd party FTP(s) site
Target storage location of files (media)
Could be same server but different target path Or a separate geographical location
Dynamic path assignment based on the form data
Script execution (Command line OR URL calls)
Storage of job artifacts in XML and PDF

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Workflow Components
Group
Extends default user properties
Order form assignment (multiple order forms per user)
Shared Folders – file area – shared media storage
Shared transactions (Jobs)
Permissions
Job
Entity that combines files (media) and order form information (meta data)
Transactional information (job history log)
Status
Automatic status triggers. Incomplete -> Sent, Sent -> Shipped, Incomplete -> Error
Coming Soon: User defined triggers based on the outcome of the script execution or status
template

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Workflow Components
User
• Authentication (LDAP, Active Directory, SSO, Internal Database)
• Assigned functionality – submission, distribution, file area, admin or full access
• Assigned to one or multiple groups
File Area
• Web accessible file share
• Submission of files from file share into Workflow
• Automated uploads and downloads via HotFolder

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User ViewAdministration View
User Authentication
Security
Order Forms Groups Jobs
Fields Users Status
FileCatalyst / FTP Sites
FileCatalyst Workflow
Upload / Downloads (Java Applets, HTTP (Form Uploads), HotFolder , Mobile,
API)
Create Job View Job File Area
Building Blocks for any File Transfer Workflow

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Workflow Diagram
Order FormUser Group
Job
Sites
Status
File Area

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Demo FileCatalyst Workflow

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Questions?