posted by: Srinivas Avasarala on December 10, 2010 1:50 PM
filed in: Uncategorized
tagged: App-ID, application control, application usage & risk report, FASP
What’s APPening with FASP
A big shortcoming of traditional file transfer protocols such as FTP or HTTP has been the impact on throughput that results from TCP’s aggressive congestion control mechanism; especially when transferring large data files over wide area networks. Aspera’s FASP is an application layer protocol that is among the many alternatives that have been designed to address this issue. It uses UDP instead of TCP as the underlying transport layer and leverages the fact that bulk file transfer does not require in-order delivery of byte streams. …Continue reading
