You don’t need a proprietary protocol to move huge files fast anymore. Files.com is fast because our apps and cloud are built for it. Customers have pushed over 20 Gbit/s. And your partners don’t need to install anything to get a file: a web link works in any browser. 4,000+ companies run file delivery on Files.com, including Bloomberg and Gray Media.
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Aspera built its own protocol, FASP, to solve a real problem. Back in the early 2000s, the normal internet protocols were too slow to move giant files across the world, so Aspera made a faster one. That mattered a lot then. It barely matters now.
Files.com gets the same speed through engineering: a cloud network built for moving files, and Desktop, CLI, and SDK apps tuned to upload fast. Our customers and our own tests have pushed over 20 Gbit/s from ordinary hardware. You’re fastest with our apps installed.
With Files.com, your partners don’t have to install anything. Aspera and FASP require installing software on both ends, so a partner who can’t install it can’t get the file.
With Files.com, a web link works in any browser, for upload and download. Sure, our clients are required if you really care about multi-gigabit speed, just like Aspera. But Files.com also works perfectly fine without them.
“We tested about five different cloud FTPs, and Files.com had much faster download and upload speeds.”
The Files.com Agent ships its own custom UDP-based acceleration over our 100 Gbit network, built for the routes where UDP earns its keep: long-haul intercontinental moves, multi-terabyte files, lossy networks. The acceleration is included with the platform rather than licensed as an add-on. UDP isn’t required for Files.com speed, and you can still have it.
Files.com is SaaS: your site is running the moment you sign up. A five-day onboarding engagement is included on every plan, and most teams are live within five business days. Your deadline doesn’t wait on an appliance.
Files.com runs storage and compute in eight zones worldwide, including Canada, the EU, the UK, Japan, Australia, India, and Singapore. Regional acceleration servers route each connection to the closest pool, so a global delivery stays fast and your data stays in the region your mandate requires.
Files.com is built for the cloud and publishes its pricing, so you can see the number before you talk to anyone. There is no high-speed-transfer server to size, deploy, and license per node.
#1 across every G2 rating for Managed File Transfer, with 4,000+ organizations and 15+ years of operation.
A faster transfer is worth less than it sounds if you still have to onboard every partner by hand, chase down who sent what, and wire up the workflow yourself. The gap between moving a file and running the operation is where a transfer engine ends and a platform begins.
Files.com runs the whole operation around the transfer: large-file delivery with a branded link and a delivery record, partner onboarding with a walled workspace each, an immutable audit log of every file event, and automation that routes the file the moment it lands. One platform, run for you, on published pricing.
Aspera has plug-ins into the broadcast and post-production tools: Avid, Adobe, and the major media asset managers. Files.com connects over standard protocols rather than living inside the editing app.
Files.com isn’t FASP-compatible. Some delivery partners mandate Aspera Connect on their end.
Fast file transfer is one of these six capabilities. Files.com ships the speed your deadlines need, plus the platform around the pipe.
Dedicated, fully managed SFTP, FTPS, and FTP endpoints, with every protocol your partners already use. No servers to patch and no DMZ to maintain.Replaces IBM Sterling, GoAnywhere, MOVEit, Axway, AWS Transfer Family
See Cloud SFTP ServerBranded portals, secure share links, and request inboxes, plus co-editing for Office documents. Partners and customers get access with no account and nothing to install.Replaces Box, Dropbox, ShareFile, Egnyte
See CollaborationMove files up to 5 TB at full speed over any distance, with chunked, resumable transfers on standard protocols and custom UDP acceleration in the Agent.Replaces IBM Aspera, Signiant
See Fast TransfersTrigger on a file arriving, a schedule, or an event, then route, convert, and notify, with retries and alerts built in. The reliable replacement for the scripts and cron jobs nobody wants to own.Replaces fragile custom scripts and cron jobs
See AutomationsReshape files inline as they move: convert formats and pull fields out of EDI, HL7, XML, JSON, and CSV, so downstream systems get exactly what they expect.Replaces hand-built parsing and conversion scripts
See Transform & ExtractNative apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android mount your cloud storage as a local drive, so you can retire aging file servers and NAS without changing how people work.Replaces NetApp, Nasuni, aging NAS, Windows file servers
See File Server ReplacementEvery capability runs on one platform — SOC 2 Type II certified, HIPAA BAA available, with a complete audit trail on every action.
Tommy Bahama's photo studio, Spanx's creative operation, and Raycom Sports run their delivery on one platform. Here's how.
Files.com let the studio change the exchange beneath a continuously moving, image-by-image workflow without pausing weekly production.
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The replacement had to carry massive files from studios SPANX did not control and make creative intake easier for editors to manage.
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Without migrating its media, Raycom gave production trucks, editors, master control, and broadcast partners one automated path to full-game files.
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Files.com has run for 15+ years with zero breaches. The controls your auditors ask about are standard here, not add-ons.
Independently audited, every year.
Certified under FedRAMP 20x at Class A, with Class B in progress.
BAA and DPA available, with EU and regional data residency.
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2 and 1.3 in transit.
SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, MFA, and granular role-based access.
Every action logged immutably and streamed to your SIEM.
No Level 1 runaround, no script, no callback queue. When something breaks, you reach a seasoned file transfer expert who can actually fix it.
Talk to file transfer experts who understand how you work.
A dedicated Customer Engineer and a step-by-step plan — most teams are live within five business days.
Clear documentation, training materials, and how-to guides.
“Files.com's strengths are simplicity, ease of use, and the cloud connectors. We don't have to invent custom infrastructure for every partner.”
“Files.com is versatile — it can manage many different situations from a single platform. We've consolidated multiple tools onto it.”
“Files.com is robust and scales to a large enterprise. We get multiple files per minute, per second — and we're a 24/7 organization, so everything has to always be up.”
What buyers ask most when comparing Files.com to Aspera.
Yes. Files.com hits Aspera-class speeds without proprietary acceleration like Aspera’s FASP. The Desktop app, CLI, and SDK clients are tuned for upload and download, talking to a cloud network built for file orchestration. Our customers and our own tests have benchmarked over 20 Gbit/s from commodity hardware. And unlike Aspera, no client is required: a web link works in any browser.
The on-premise Agent ships Files.com’s own custom UDP-based acceleration, and paired with the Desktop app, the Agent is the fastest transfer path Files.com offers. By default the Agent runs outbound-only, with zero firewall changes, a mode that deliberately trades some throughput for never touching your network rules. Deployments chasing maximum speed turn on Direct Transfers and get it back. Max speed or zero firewall work: you pick.
No. A branded Files.com share link works in any browser: your partner clicks and downloads, nothing to install. Our Desktop app, CLI, and SDK are faster, but they’re optional. Aspera’s FASP needs Aspera Connect on both ends, and the partner who can’t install it can’t receive the file at all.
Yes. Files.com replaces both. The person-to-person sending Faspex handles maps to file inboxes and requests and branded share links. The shared-workspace model of Shares maps to partner workspaces with their own users, folders, and permissions, in one platform rather than separate products.
When your editors work inside Avid or Adobe and depend on Aspera’s plug-ins into those suites, or when a delivery partner mandates Aspera Connect on their end. For large-file delivery, partner exchange, and media workflows outside those two cases, Files.com moves the files fast and runs everything around the transfer in one platform.
If your editors live inside Avid or Adobe on Aspera’s plug-ins, or a partner mandates Aspera Connect, choose Aspera.
Otherwise, choose Files.com. You get the speed from tuned clients, with UDP acceleration in the Agent when the route calls for it. Any partner can receive a file from a web link with nothing to install. The whole platform of onboarding, sharing, audit, and automation runs around the transfer. The proprietary protocol is a cost, not a feature: a client your partners must install, products you license and bolt together, and a contract you negotiate before the first file moves.
4,000+ organizations run fast, governed file delivery on Files.com. Talk to our team or move a real workload on a 7-day free trial.
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