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Exhibit Hall Open

Grand Ballroom Salons 3-6

Tuesday 1:00 pm- 7:00 pm
Wednesday 10:00 am- 5:00 pm
Thursday 10:00 am- 2:00 pm

High-speed Digital Transport - A Critical Comparison of Available Technologies

Michelle Munson (Aspera, USA)

Moving large volumes of file-based digital assets is at the heart of all media workflows today. Content creators, broadcasters, aggregators and service providers have forged a supply chain in which file-based media is constantly generated, repurposed and distributed to global audiences. Traditional transport methods – such as physical shipments or FTP transfers – are proving impractical and dedicated file delivery services cost-prohibitive. As a result, new “accelerated” digital transport technologies for moving media files over commodity IP networks have emerged and are being offered to media companies such as hardware TCP acceleration and UDP data blasting, promising to reduce production cycles and deliver high-quality content to worldwide audiences faster and more cost effectively. However some of these alternative solutions deliver only modest performance improvements that degrade with distance, or deceptively appear to improve network bandwidth utilization at a tremendous hidden bandwidth cost, and actually result in slow effective transfers. With multiple digital transport options available today, decision makers need to carefully evaluate actual performance and explore the less obvious shortcomings and drawbacks of certain solutions that can have a significant impact on cost and productivity. To effectively address the business requirements of media companies for global movement of bulk data, the ideal transport solution should deliver optimal end-to-end bandwidth efficiency over any IP network, independent of distance and packet loss, protection of other network traffic and precise methods for controlling bandwidth allocation and transfer prioritization for many concurrent transfers. In this session Michelle Munson, Aspera president and co-founder, will describe the results of a study by Aspera comparing the alternative approaches to “accelerating” file-based transfers – both commercial and academic – in terms of bandwidth utilization, network efficiency, and transfer time with Aspera’s fasp transport. She will describe the critical design differences that allow fasp to achieve file transfers with high speeds and high bandwidth efficiency over the range of networks, distances, and concurrency patterns of media companies today.

Wednesday, Oct 28
2:00 PM- 5:45 PM

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