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09.05.07

Aspera Software to Demonstrate Revolutionary Integrated High Speed File Transfer Technology at IBC2007 with Industry Partners, Microsoft and Isilon Systems

 Thousands of FASP™ Technology Licenses Deployed Across Entertainment and New Media

Amsterdam, Netherlands September 05, 2007 -- Aspera Inc., software developer of industry-leading, bulk data transport technology, today announced that they will be exhibiting their Fasp™ 2.0 high-speed file transfer products at IBC2007 in Amsterdam along with industry partners Microsoft Corp. and Isilon Systems.  Aspera will demonstrate how their integrated software is becoming the leading industry standard for high speed file transfer in digital media production, collaborative media management and scalable storage solutions.

Fasp 2.0 from Aspera, a software transport platform providing maximum speed, complete security, and breakthrough bandwidth control at global distances, will be featured in the Microsoft Interactive Media Manager solution for collaborative media management. Isilon Systems will feature Aspera’s joint storage solution for scalable high performance content delivery.  With now several thousand endpoint and server licenses installed world wide, Aspera’s Fasp technology is virtually transforming business workflows for major Hollywood studios, production facilities, media content producers, broadcasters, and game developers, as well as Fortune 500 companies and government agencies.

Fasp 2.0 is available now and delivers gigabit per second transfer speeds over the WAN, providing superior efficiency for large data sets of files.  Featuring adaptive rate control and enterprise-scale automation and bandwidth management over the internet and private IP networks, the fundamental problems of transferring huge data files and directories are eliminated.  Fasp 2.0 provides users with the unique ability to set file transfer speeds, file priority settings, and finish times, and to track their progress, optimizing available bandwidth control, and increasing efficiency 100x or more over standard protocols like FTP. This is vital for industries that have massive amounts of critical data that require fast, secure and predictable file transfers. 

Aspera software is a key extension component for Microsoft’s Interactive Media Manager, which can be seen in the Microsoft Exhibit in the Topaz Lounge at IBC2007.   Interactive Media Manager is a collaborative media management solution that extends Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for media and entertainment companies, enabling integration through the Aspera Enterprise Server software and Aspera Connect browser plug-in software, providing “out-of-the-box” uploads of media files through the Interactive Media Manager web portal. This integrated solution helps media-intensive companies create an end-to-end content production system capable of dealing with the new challenges of taking digital content to the Internet. Similarly, the Interactive Media Manager back-end can be extended with Aspera software for high-speed transfers between production units and distribution partners.

“We are excited about the increased momentum of Interactive Media Manager and are pleased to be working with Aspera to extend the capabilities of our integrated solution together for customers who are using or considering Aspera for high-speed ingest and delivery of media,” said Mark Kashman, Interactive Media Manager product manager of the Industry Solutions Team in the Worldwide Services Group at Microsoft. The IBC2007 demonstration will focus on showing how the integration of Aspera software in Interactive Media Manager solves one of the most pressing challenges in this process – moving large media assets securely, at high speed, between disparate and distributed systems, illustrated in a point-point workflow scenario.

Additionally at IBC2007, Isilon Systems will be featuring their IQ Clustered Storage Solution with Aspera's Enterprise Server for high-performance, scalable content delivery. Aspera Enterprise Server for Clustered Storage is a new software application running directly on the Isilon IQ clustered storage platform to provide a cluster-aware version of Aspera high-speed file transfer technology for rapid, reliable, and scalable content delivery for video, audio, images, and other rich media assets or unstructured data to any point in the network, or to any user with access to a web browser, Mac, PC, or UNIX workstation.

"As digital content and unstructured data continues to proliferate throughout the enterprise, companies are being faced with not only the challenge of effectively managing and storing this unique category of data, but also the challenge of quickly and reliably transferring such large data sets between business locations,” said Brett Goodwin, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of Isilon Systems. "Unifying Aspera's innovative, high speed file transfer software with Isilon’s industry-leading clustered storage delivers the first and only solution to address both of these critical challenges by simultaneously accelerating and scaling storage and transport across wide area networks, enabling even the most content-intensive enterprises to maximize the value of their business information." 

By combining Isilon's SmartConnect™ software application with the Aspera Enterprise Server for Isilon IQ, companies can create transfer zones where portions of the cluster are dedicated to Aspera clients during shared usage periods. As content delivery requirements grow, administrators can simply "scale out" the transfer job to utilize more nodes in the cluster to transfer files. Aspera automatically spreads large file and data set transfers over cluster nodes, allowing massive gigabit-per-second throughputs in minutes as opposed to hours, even over an intercontinental WAN.  As file transfer needs expand, administrators simply add performance or capacity to the cluster, without having to manage servers and storage separately. Through a single, scalable file system, Aspera Enterprise Server for Isilon IQ collapses the server and storage tier into a single, common storage and transfer management pool. 

“At Zoic Studios, we deliver leading-edge visual effects from two primary locations – Culver City and Vancouver, B.C. – and we process our data-intensive, all-digital effects at both locations through collaboration between the artists and producers located in each city,” said Saker Klippsten, Head of Engineering for Zoic Studios.  “Our unique workflow requires not only high performance, highly scalable storage, but also the ability to transfer massive, complex files at very high speeds between locations.  The Aspera Enterprise Server for Isilon IQ delivers both the unparalleled data access and the file transfer speed we need to accelerate our business and satisfy our customers.”

“We look forward to participating in this years’ IBC2007 with our key partners Microsoft and Isilon Systems as we are jointly introducing technology to meet the extraordinary performance and management requirements of the new digital media chains”, said Aspera President and Co-Founder, Michelle Munson. “Together, these integrated technology solutions are providing complete, extremely fast, efficient, and secure end-to-end content delivery and storage solutions that are transforming traditional media workflows into fully electronic, highly-efficient collaborative environments.”

IBC2007 is September 7-11 at the Rai Centre in Amsterdam, NL. See Aspera demonstrated at:

Aspera Inc. - Hall 1 Stand 583

Isilon Systems - Hall 7 / Stand 710

Microsoft Corp. - Topaz Lounge

About Aspera

Aspera's suite of products solve the fundamental problems of transferring bulk data (files, directories of files, and generally any large data sets) over the Internet and private IP networks. Aspera’s fasp™ transport technology eliminates the bottlenecks of conventional file transfer technologies and dramatically speeds file transfers, even over inherently unreliable international, satellite, and wireless links. Because transfer speed automatically adapts to use the available bandwidth and protect other traffic while also allowing the user to pre-set and change on-the-fly individual transfer priorities, speeds, and finish times as needed, Aspera technology is becoming a ‘standard’ for digital content transfer by delivering dramatic savings in time and cost.   Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Aspera creates innovative high-speed data transport technologies for use by major Hollywood studios, broadcasters, post houses, on-demand video providers, computer game makers, software developers, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, defense contractors and government agencies. 

For more information, please visit www.asperasoft.com.

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