FileCatalyst v3.3 preview - multi-file transfers and auto-zip

Presenter: Chris Bailey & Christian Charette

Duration: 30 minutes

September Webinar: FileCatalyst v3.3 previewMulti-File Transfers and Auto-Zip

Presenter Introduction

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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

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)


FileCatalyst Direct v3.3


• Key driver was to meet media industry needs• Implementation is generic and applies to other industries

FileCatalyst Direct v3.3 Use Case


Remote venue Central editing studio

Remote sporting event with high latency (overseas)



Video dumps content on remote SAN. Live feed may last hours



Transfer growth file to central editing studio



Available for rapid broadcast



Sporting event needs to handle up to 100 cameras



Other data (static content) also generated and needs to be sent quickly



HOTFOLDER SERVER

HotFolder Tasks with Multi-File Sessions is built to handle this



• 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



• 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






– 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)

• 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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