Defining key goals of FileCatalyst Direct version 3.3 and the results of transfer speed benefits.

1. September Webinar: FileCatalyst v3.3 preview
Multi-File Transfers and Auto-Zip
Presenter: Chris Bailey & Christian Charette
Duration: 30 minutes

2. Presenter Introduction
Chris Bailey
• Co-Founder and CEO of FileCatalyst
• Key architect for core transfer technology
Christian Charette
• Director of Software Development
• Project lead for FileCatalyst Direct v3.3
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3. Agenda
• Quickly define key goals FileCatalyst Direct v3.3
• Results of transfer speeds benefits
• Show demonstration of software
• Questions (please type them in as we go)
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4. FileCatalyst Direct v3.3
• Key driver was to meet media industry needs
• Implementation is generic and applies to other industries
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5. FileCatalyst Direct v3.3 Use Case
Remote sporting event with high latency (overseas)
Remote venue Central editing studio
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6. FileCatalyst Direct v3.3 Use Case
Video dumps content on remote SAN. Live feed may last hours
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7. FileCatalyst Direct v3.3 Use Case
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Transfer growth file to central editing studio

8. FileCatalyst Direct v3.3 Use Case
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Available for rapid broadcast

9. FileCatalyst Direct v3.3 Use Case
Sporting event needs to handle up to 100 cameras
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10. FileCatalyst Direct v3.3 Use Case
Other data (static content) also generated and needs to be sent quickly
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11. FileCatalyst Direct v3.3 Use Case
HotFolder Tasks with Multi-File Sessions is built to handle this
HOTFOLDER SERVER
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12. FileCatalyst Direct v3.3
• Key driver was to meet media industry needs
– Have a single task send out multiple growth files at a time
– Send out static content while some files are growing
– Ability to schedule new content for transfer while a task is running
– Automatically accelerate small files by bundling them together in
larger TAR file (v3.2 required separate task for this)
– Easy task management
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13. FileCatalyst Direct v3.3
• New features being developed:
– Multi-File Transfer Sessions (multi-client API)
• Task now has the ability to launch multiple workers (100+) in order to
accelerate transfer of a directory structure
• Allows multiple growth files to be transferred concurrently with static
content.
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14. FileCatalyst Direct v3.3
• New features being developed:
– Multi-File Transfer Sessions (multi-client API)
• Task now has the ability to launch multiple workers (100+) in order to
accelerate transfer of a directory structure
• Allows multiple growth files to be transferred concurrently with static
content.
– Multi-File Session Tasks (HotFolder)
• Schedule at small intervals (10 seconds)
• Ability to queue new files found in a running task
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15. FileCatalyst Direct v3.3
• New features being developed:
– Multi-File Transfer Sessions (multi-client API)
• Task now has the ability to launch multiple workers (100+) in order to
accelerate transfer of a directory structure
• Allows multiple growth files to be transferred concurrently with static
content.
– Multi-File Session Tasks (HotFolder)
• Schedule at small intervals (10 seconds)
• Ability to queue new files found in a running task
– Auto-archiving of files smaller (tar bundling)
• Ability to automatically sent block of small files together ( < 1MB)
• No compression, files are automatically unbundled when arriving at
destination.
• Allows small files to be sent quickly (10x faster)
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16. FileCatalyst Direct v3.3
• Auto-archiving performance improvements
– Transferring directory structure of 7000 files (~6.96 GB),
– 110ms latency link, 0% packet loss
• 1 large 1.0 GB file
• 8 large 500 MB files
• 4 large 100 MB files
• 6988 small 250KB files
* Note: FileZilla or standard FTP transfer was over 21 hours
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17. DEMOS
DEMOS
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18. Upcoming Events:
-New York User Forum, (Oct 1)
-Interop NY, New York(Oct 2-3)
-Broadcast India, Mumbai (Oct 9-11)
- IP Expo, London (Oct 16-17)
And of course don’t forget our monthly webinar....

19. Thank you for attending our September webinar!
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