The document describes a webinar introducing FileCatalyst Direct v3.6, presented by co-founder John Tkaczewski. It covers topics like file transfer issues with TCP, the improvements FileCatalyst offers through UDP technology, and highlights major new features of version 3.6, such as cloud integration and enhanced efficiency for bulk file transfers.

1. Webinar: An Introduction to FileCatalyst Direct v3.6
Nov 19, 2015 at 11:00AM Eastern Time

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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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Speed improvement with FileCatalyst

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FileCatalyst Direct v3.6

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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

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Demo

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Questions?