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Industry | Data transmission Streaming media |
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Founded | 2004 |
Headquarters | 425 Market Street, , |
Parent | IBM (2013–present) |
Website | ibm |
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]
Aspera was founded in 2004 by Michelle Munson and Serban Simu. [3] Munson and Simu patented and 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]
Aspera has been granted the following patents: