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, including Bloomberg and Gray Media, run file delivery on Files.com.
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 a different way — not a special protocol, but 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.
Here’s what Aspera can’t say: your partners don’t have to install anything. FASP needs Aspera Connect 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 — not top speed, but fast, and it works at all. Then the platform onboards that partner and handles everything else around the transfer.
“We tested about five different cloud FTPs, and Files.com had much faster download and upload speeds.”
The fastest path is the Desktop app, CLI, or SDK — clients tuned for upload, talking to a cloud network built for file orchestration. Our customers and our own tests have benchmarked over 20 Gbit/s from commodity hardware. That speed comes from the clients and the cloud, not a proprietary protocol you have to adopt.
Aspera’s FASP needs Aspera Connect on the receiving end, and a lot of partners can’t or won’t install it. With Files.com, a branded share link works in any browser — your partner clicks and downloads, nothing to install. Our clients are faster, but they’re optional. The thing that beats Aspera is that it works at all.
Aspera moves the bytes. Files.com is the product around the transfer: partner onboarding with a walled workspace each, file inboxes, an immutable audit log, and automation — onboarding and managing every partner, not just sending them a file.
Files.com is built for the cloud and publishes its pricing. There is no high-speed-transfer server to size, deploy, and license per node, and no quote-driven appliance contract to negotiate before the first file moves.
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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. That gap 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.
If the partner on the other end requires Aspera Connect, the transfer has to speak Aspera. Files.com isn’t FASP-compatible, so an exchange a counterparty has built around Aspera needs Aspera.
What buyers ask most when comparing Files.com to Aspera.
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, any partner can receive a file from a web link with nothing to install, and the whole platform — onboarding, sharing, audit, 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.
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