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From the most established brands to the most revolutionary up-and-comers, the media industry trusts and relies upon Aspera’s technology and product stack to quickly and reliably deliver their richest content experiences to viewers and screens around the world.

At NAB 2017, Aspera is introducing its most ambitious set of high-speed transfer software and workflow automation solutions ever, including a preview of a new streaming service for high-quality video and data streaming as well as new capabilities across the entire suite of applications and APIs including new SaaS services.

Aspera Transfer Platform

The Aspera transfer platform is the most advanced software solution available today for file transfer, synchronization, and now streaming of digital assets, allowing users and enterprises secure high speed movement of all of their data over any distance, to any environment, with none of the waiting.

At NAB 2017, we will introduce new pre-commit volume and pay-as-you-go subscriptions with new hybrid offering options which allow you to combine these three deployment models.

New Technology Foundations

The technology foundation of the latest generation of the Transfer Server software version 3.7, and the upcoming version 3.8, have major advancements including:

• Core FASP transfer performance and security
• Optimized scale-out options that can sustain 20 Gbps+ multi-session jobs across clustered cloud instances
• Full multi-tenant management by access keys
• New capabilities to transmit live video and data streams for universal delivery of any bulk streaming application over the WAN – including live video ingest and distribution, high quality streaming to the browser, and live data ingest for big data analytics

To enable the most advanced and cloud-ready high speed transfer platform, the core transfer services also include enhancements in high-speed file synchronization to both cloud and on premises (block) storage, Integration of the new high performance file system Watchfolder capability directly into the desktop GUI to support easy and advanced automation of transfer workflows, many new features in Autoscale cluster management in the cloud, significant enhancements in Direct-to-Cloud storage, and a new event journal service .

New Aspera Application Suite

The Aspera application suite is a versatile and fully-integrated suite of software products and SaaS Services that solve the wide range problems of moving bulk data including file transfer, file synchronization and data streaming, between standard host computers over commodity Internet, between any storage – cloud or on-premises – with no size limits, at maximum speed independent of network distance, and with complete security. New features and new additions for:

• High Speed Transfer & File Sharing Services
• Enterprise File Sharing and Distribution
• High Performance Synchronization and Transfer Automation
• Transfer Management and Workflow Automation
• Transfer Analytics and Visualization Preview

New Multi-Cloud SaaS Offerings

Aspera’s groundbreaking SaaS solutions enable organizations to transfer, send and share large files and data sets – from any location, to anywhere, with anyone. Aspera Files SaaS is a rich, multi-tenant file sharing application service, which embeds the Aspera Transfer Service (ATS) that wraps the Aspera high-speed transfer platform into a service. ATS provides out-of-the-box support for all AWS and IBM Bluemix infrastructure regions and data centers, and provides early access for Azure and will support Google Cloud Storage soon. The service inter-operates with all core Aspera products, enabling transfers from on-premises server nodes and other cloud nodes.

Aspera will be at booth SL8124.