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Yeah, I was probably working in an environment with pretty low packet loss. Looking at the problem holistically - if you're going to spend money on Aspera to f
by mattbillenstein 7y ago
Yeah, I was probably working in an environment with pretty low packet loss.
Looking at the problem holistically - if you're going to spend money on Aspera to fix situations with high packet loss, maybe you're better off spending money on a higher quality connection and using tcp.
- ncmncm 7y agoYes, that works when latency is low. On trans-oceanic links you often have to take what you can get, drops and all, and physics has something to say about latency. There is no reason fasp couldn't be reverse-engineered and deployed for free. But it involves real engineering. Once you did, you would have something valuable, and might be inclined to milk it. Aspera has lots of lock-in now for ancillary features of the product -- monitoring, encryption in flight, encryption at rest, bandwidth use scheduling, yada yada; but in the early days, competitors (Signiant, Riverbed) had all that, but not the flow control sauce, so failed on difficult routes. "Enterprises" like not to care about the difficulty of routes, and it's amazing how many consider the license cheap.
- mattbillenstein 7y agoYes, good points!