FastSoft Technology at Heart of 4th Consecutive Internet Speed World Record
FastTCP Developed by CEO Steven Low’s Lab at Caltech
Monrovia, Calif. – February 12, 2007 – FastSoft Inc. (fastsoft.com), a start-up venture that develops products that accelerate the transfer of data over the Internet, is pleased to announce that its patent-pending FastTCP™ technology, which was developed using research undertaken by company CEO Steven Low at the California Institute of Technology’s Networking Laboratory (Netlab), was a key component of a record-breaking entry at the SuperComputing 2006 Bandwidth Challenge. This is the fourth year in a row that a FastTCP-powered solution has broken speed records, which measures sustained data transfer between storage systems. The winning solution was developed jointly by a team led by Caltech, CERN, and the University of Michigan, along with other global partners.
FastTCP technology has been used by international teams of scientists to set world records in data transfer over the Internet for the past four years, and this year they once again set the network speed record by moving data at a peak throughput of 17.77 gigabits per second (Gbps) between disks.
According to Dr. Low, “the continuing success of our entries at the Bandwidth Challenge is proof that FastTCP is a viable approach to revolutionizing high-speed data communications. Our mission at FastSoft is to take the award-winning technology that our team developed at Caltech and transform it into a business application that will allow enterprises to improve their efficiency and profitability by eliminating the costly delays caused by slow transmissions. We are working with several cutting-edge companies to test our commercial product, and are looking forward to achieving general availability in the first half of 2007.”
Caltech Professor Harvey Newman, who has led the team that set network throughput records at each of the last three SuperComputing conferences said, “The development of FastTCP has been a breakthrough for the research community, including the thousands of high energy physicists distributed throughout the world that are now preparing for the start of the Large Hadron Collider program this year. FastTCP ability to adapt to a variety of working conditions, and reach equilibrium in the presence of competing data flows, is the key to efficient network usage over long distances, over an impressive range of network speeds.”
Caltech professor John Doyle adds, “This is an exciting example of deep theoretical work in academia having immediate practical impact on real-world applications. Let’s hope it will be followed by many such success stories in networking.”
Further information about the demonstration is available at: https://scinet.supercomp.org/2006/bwc/
About FastSoft
FastSoft, Inc. (www.fastsoft.com) is a privately funded start-up company based in the Los Angeles area. Its patent-pending FastTCP™ technology was developed at The California Institute of Technology’s networking laboratory (Netlab). The company’s mission is to radically improve the speed and quality of data transfer over the Web and to unlock the full potential of Internet broadband communications.