The Post Group Posts 1300% Speed Up

The Post Group is celebrating its 30th anniversary as one of Hollywood’s leading post-production providers. The Hollywood-based facility has grown from a single edit suite into one of the largest post houses in the world. The Post Group’s trailblazing philosophy led the company into the world of digital effects for film, including work for Apollo 13, Independence Day, and Titanic. The company currently provides services in Hi-Definition to hit television series “House”, “Numb3rs”, and “CSI” as well as providing online assembly, visual effects, encoding, and digital distribution services for clients globally.

The Need for Speed

In the world of post production, video and audio files are often too large to send over the Internet in a timely manner. “Because of the quality our work demands, we try to avoid compression as much as possible,” says Post Group’s CIO Darin Harris. “Sending multi-gigabit files online is very difficult because it can take hours to send information that people need instantly. We needed a way to send our work to anywhere in the world in a much shorter timeframe and that’s why we turned to FastSoft.”

The FastSoft Solution

In today’s broadband-powered world, the transfer of large files is seriously hindered by TCP, a 20-year-old protocol that governs more than 90% of Internet traffic. Companies that rely on The Post Group lose valuable time and productivity waiting for data to download. FastSoft’s flagship product line, built on award-winning technology developed at Caltech, is allowing The Post Group to bypass the TCP protocol and dramatically improve its data distribution speeds.

According to Harris, the FastSoft tool is speeding up the transmission of files by more than 1300 percent. “FastSoft is making a significant impact in how we transmit out large files to our partners, colleagues and customers. We looked at other solutions, but selected FastSoft not only because of the speed improvements, but because it was the only single-box tool on the market. That means the people that we send files don’t need to have a matching box, or any special software, to speed up the arriving data. They simply receive the information as they always have – it’s just a lot faster.”

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