fasp file transport

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The File Transfer Problem

Transferring large data sets—big files, big collections of files—via inexpensive IP networks,instead of shipping tapes, discs, or film, promises to change fundamentally the economics of content production, distribution, and management.

Under ideal conditions, data may be moved quickly and inexpensively using ordinary file transfer methods such as FTP, HTTP, and Windows CIFS copy. However, on real wide-area and high-speed network paths these methods' throughput collapses, failing to use more than a small fraction of available capacity. This is a consequence of the design of TCP, the underlying protocol they all rely on. New TCP stacks and new network acceleration devices are marketed to help, but they fail to fully utilize many typical wide-area network paths.Consequently, conventional FTP, and even new "acceleration" solutions, cannot provide the speed and predictability needed for global file transfers.