Today I saw this article in Wired on Dropbox and found it very interesting based on the classic David vs Goliath comparison, where the small, innovative solution is pitted against the larger, more established solutions and vendors (Apple and their new iCloud offering). In this respect, the Dropbox vs. Apple story is similar to the [...]

A big shortcoming of traditional file transfer protocols such as FTP or HTTP has been the impact on throughput that results from TCP’s aggressive congestion control mechanism; especially when transferring large data files over wide area networks. Aspera’s FASP is an application layer protocol that is among the many alternatives that have been designed to [...]

As the Antenna-gate controversy raged and finally subsided, the team here was busy enhancing our App-ID technology to identify Apple’s new video calling feature – FaceTime. It is essentially the audio-video chat functionality of Apple’s iChat for desktops, but tied to the iPhone4 device. From our analysis of the network traffic of FaceTime, we discovered [...]