Re:How we built a new, fast file transfer protocol
by ncmncm on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:49PM
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I am glad to have somebody acting on this stuff.
The original design for FASP's flow control was developed in China and applied in a router: you would have one at each end, and it would spoof TCP for clients. That was a huge flop, because it didn't say Cisco on the nameplate.
The Aspera principals realized they could implement it in user space using UDP, bypassing the network infrastructure purchasing cabal, and sell directly to the users who had data to move.
I always wanted to get the astronomy community using it (e.g. to Antarctica and Atacama, Chile) under a free license, but never quite got there.
The original design for FASP's flow control was developed in China and applied in a router: you would have one at each end, and it would spoof TCP for clients. That was a huge flop, because it didn't say Cisco on the nameplate.
The Aspera principals realized they could implement it in user space using UDP, bypassing the network infrastructure purchasing cabal, and sell directly to the users who had data to move.
I always wanted to get the astronomy community using it (e.g. to Antarctica and Atacama, Chile) under a free license, but never quite got there.