Aspera (company)
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.History
Aspera was founded in 2004 by Michelle Munson and Serban Simu with the launch of its high-speed FASP data transfer protocol and sales of software products based on FASP. IBM acquired Aspera in January 2014.
Aspera won a 2013 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development and a 2014 Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for Secure Accelerated File Movement over IP including the Internet. The company received a Hollywood Professional Association Engineering Excellence Award for its Telestream Vantage with Lightspeed Live Capture product in 2018.Patents
Aspera has been granted the following patents:
- 2005: a patent for bulk data transfer
- 2007: a patent for methods and systems for aggregate bandwidth control
- 2009: a patent for practical models for high speed file delivery services supporting guaranteed delivery times and differentiated service levels
- 2010: a patent for methods and systems for input/output driven rate adaptation
- 2012: a patent for multicast bulk transfer systems
