Aspera: Today Super-Fast Video File Transfers for the Media Industry. Tomorrow Super-Fast Video Downloads for Consumers?

Aspera: Today Super-Fast Video File Transfers for the Media Industry. Tomorrow Super-Fast Video Downloads for Consumers?: "When the company was started 5 years ago, Aspera's co-founders' premise was that the traditional approach for moving files, primarily by using FTP ('File Transfer Protocol'), was inherently inefficient because it was optimized for text and used TCP, the underlying protocol that most Internet traffic relies on. Rather than trying to improve FTP or TCP as others have done, they instead designed their own protocol called 'fasp' (Fast and Secure Access Protocol). By installing Aspera's fasp software at the file's send and receive points, large files can be sent over existing network infrastructure. fasp can send files 10 to 100s of times faster than FTP (there are charts here that show Aspera's tests)."