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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 v3.6
⢠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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FileCatalyst Direct v3.6
⢠3.5 was released in July, 3.6 is scheduled for release in about 2 weeks
⢠17 New features
⢠Over 80 bug fixes
⢠See releasenotes.html
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FileCatalyst Direct v3.6
List of Major new Features:
⢠Ability to send e-mail Link directly from FileCatalyst Server. (separate video to be posted soon)
⢠Cloud Integration S3 much faster, Azure Blob Storage, OpenStack (Dec 2015)
⢠Allow server home directories for S3 and Azure to include credentials (pass through)
⢠Better support for Growing Files. Ability to re-transfer file headers & footers as post-
task operation
⢠Directory streaming (unlimited directory size) available in CLI with multi-client.
⢠Improved discovery and install of TransferAgent
⢠Configuration settings exposed in Express for site manager