PAR Government Systems Selects FastSoft to Accelerate File Transfers
Delivery of files for geospatial datasets reduced from months to hours
FastSoft Inc., developers of one-sided acceleration products for digital media and other large files over the Internet, has announced that PAR Government Systems Corporation (PGSC), a wholly owned subsidiary of PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE:PTC) has selected its technology to speed the delivery of geospatial files – including maps and images of physical locations – to its federal government clients.
Previously, it was impractical to send files of this size through the public Internet because transmission times were prohibitively long and sometimes unreliable. As a result, government agencies had to purchase hard drives, save the files to the drives, and then send them by courier to locations around the world. This process typically took up to two months to complete. Thanks to FastSoft, however, it is now possible to send these files in less than two hours.
The problem isn’t always bandwidth – it’s often TCP, the protocol that governs more than 90% of traffic on the Internet. TCP was designed in the early 1980s to carry text emails, not multi-gigabit files, and it’s the main reason why it takes so long to send large amounts of data. Thanks to FastSoft’s core technology – FastTCP – which was developed at Caltech and won the Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge four years in a row, it is not only possible, but very easy for organizations to increase transmission speeds by up to a factor of 30 with no caching or compression – while saving millions of dollars on infrastructure costs and bandwidth.
“FastSoft gives our customers a way to quickly and efficiently deliver files that typically took up to 60 days of manual distribution through couriers and overnight services,” said Mark Kozak of PAR Government Systems. “Given the current political climate, dramatically increasing the speed of data transmissions via the Internet will become a mission-critical solution so that our customers can instantly receive large files, such as topographical maps, CAD drawings, and video. Government agencies can now use inexpensive Internet bandwidth to quickly retrieve secure updates quickly on the most complex files.”
Based on world record-setting FastTCP™ technology, the FastSoft Internet acceleration appliance resides only in the data center and does not require any hardware or software on the receiving end. The FastSoft achieves breakthrough performance improvements by bypassing the limitations of the TCP protocol. It extends the reach of existing infrastructure and accelerates file transfers across the last mile at a rate of two to 32 times the speed, or higher, depending on network conditions.
Dan henderson, VP of Marketing for FastSoft, said, “PAR Government Systems is a prime example of a system integrator that has found that the FastSoft E Series is enabling its custom software solutions to be distributed more efficiently to its end customers. With a single-box solution at the distribution point, PAR doesn’t need to control anything at the receiving end by rolling out complicated hardware or software. Customers and their end users simply get the necessary data faster. ”