Competitors such as IBM Aspera, Signint, MASV, WeTransfer, BitTorrent, etc. are the main players in the market. Products are divided into three categories:

• 1. Accelerated centralized file transfer

  Products such as IBM Aspera and Signiant that use proprietary UDP acceleration protocols have been around for more than 20 years and face huge challenges in scaling consistently over the Internet due to limited data transfer protocol capabilities, because they were primarily designed to enhance the performance of enterprise networks.

  Fangout not only solves all the challenges faced by competitors, but also achieves significantly faster speeds in complex network environments and hands-free level ease of use, making Fangout the de facto first consumer-grade accelerated file transfer service application.

• 2. Edge servers around the world

  Products like MASV and WeTransfer accelerate file transfers by routing files to the edge server closest to the user and distributing the files to other edge servers around the world for fast downloads. As a result, end-to-end file transfers actually take more time, and moving files to multiple locations around the world is less secure and presents data integrity and consistency risks.

  Fangout provides end-to-end file transfer without any additional redistribution steps, so files are instantly accessible after upload, ensuring the highest data integrity and consistency.

  All files are stored in centralized cloud storage to meet the highest data security standards and can be accessed from all over the world without compromising speed, which is also a great advantage for media workflow steps after fast ingest.

• 3. Peer-to-Peer file sharing

  Some well-known peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing products include: BitTorrent, uTorrent, LimeWire, Kazaa, eMule; these programs allow users to download files directly from other users on the network, essentially turning each computer into both a client and a server for sharing files.

  This creates huge security concerns for businesses as files are stored on random users’ own storage, and also presents integrity issues as large files are split into smaller chunks to be able to be stored on random computers.

  Fangout is an end-to-end file transfer technology using a client-server deployment, designed to deliver the highest standards of speed, security, integrity, adaptability, consistency, and reliability for the new AI media era.

Fangout UDP accelerated data transfer protocol ensures consistent speeds over long and short distances, so long distance transfers always take the same amount of time as short distance transfers by fully utilizing available network bandwidth.

• Fangout accelerates file transfers using the latest TLS 1.3 quantum-safe AES algorithm, guaranteeing unparalleled data security through end-to-end packet encryption during every transfer.

• Fangout stores files in AWS S3 object storage and encrypts all transfers at rest, ensuring that all files are encrypted in storage to the highest security standards.

• Fangout uses TLS encryption, AES-256 with 2048-bit RSA on all messaging transmissions between the client desktop or web applications and the Fangout server.

• No, Fangout is designed to be highly adaptable to accommodate any other application accessing the same network. Configuration is hands-free, simply use the default congestion watermark settings, which can also be configured to accommodate, yield, or utilize more available bandwidth in specific situations.

• Fanout file transfer traffic will actively yield to allow TCP/HTTP traffic to take higher priority when users are accessing the Internet, while always trying to fully utilize available network bandwidth. Congestion watermark settings are configurable to adjust priorities in specific situations such as mission-critical.

• Fangout file server is being offered for perpetually free, anyone can download and install wherever they want, and either mount it to Fangout to leverage the app for free or integrate it anywhere else.

• Fangout offers Studio subscriptions on Fangout-hosted public cloud storage, with charges based on file transfer traffic and storage usage, no charges for zero usage of the subscription, and messaging always free. See pricing plans for details. Subscriptions apply to each studio you create in the app, see details in the app.

Yes, you can download and install the file server anywhere you want, and either mount it to Fangout to leverage the app for free or integrate it anywhere else leveraging the CLI as well as the enterprise grade restful API for free.