Aspera (company)

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Aspera
Industry Data transmission
Streaming media
Founded2004;19 years ago (2004)
Headquarters1480 64th St,
Emeryville, California
,
U.S. [1]
Parent IBM (2013–present)
Website ibm.com/aspera/

Aspera is a data transport and streaming technology company that provides high speed data transfer services. Aspera belongs to the hybrid cloud business unit of IBM. [2]

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History

Aspera was founded in 2004 by Michelle Munson and Serban Simu. [3] Aspera developed FASP, a high-speed data transfer protocol, and software products based on FASP. [4] IBM acquired Aspera in January 2014. [4]

Aspera won a 2013 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development [5] [6] and a 2014 Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for Secure Accelerated File Movement over IP including the Internet. [7] The company received a Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Engineering Excellence Award for its Telestream Vantage with Lightspeed Live Capture product in 2018. [8]

Patents

Aspera has been granted the following patents:

See also

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  2. ↑ Press release (19 December 2013). "IBM Closes Acquisition of Aspera". IBM. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
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  9. ↑ Aspera (23 December 2005). "Bulk data transfer". Aspera. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  10. ↑ Aspera (4 September 2007). "Method and system for aggregate bandwidth control". Aspera. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  11. ↑ Aspera (16 January 2009). "Practical model for high speed file delivery services supporting guaranteed delivery times and differentiated service levels". Aspera. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  12. ↑ Aspera (5 March 2010). "Method and system for I/O driven rate adaptation". Aspera. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  13. ↑ Aspera (9 April 2012). "Multicast bulk transfer system". Aspera. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  14. ↑ PacGenesis (30 September 2020). "What is Aspera Software?". PacGenesis. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
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