What is Flume?
Flume is an internet communication protocol that eliminates the effects of latency on data communications. Flume drastically increases internet data throughput while being completely compliant with TCP/IP standards. Flume accomplishes this incredible acceleration while efficiently sharing internet bandwidth with traditional communication traffic.
The Flume protocol is currently wrapped in an rsync application that allows users to massively accelerate file and directory synchronizations around the world.
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Flume Benefits:
Flume accelerates high latency TCP/IP transmissions by 5 to more than 100 times with 100%
Data Accuracy.
Flume leverages existing internet protocols – enabling it to run on any line, leased or the public internet.
Flume is a 100% software solution, there is no new network hardware to purchase, no new tools to learn.
Flume is completely data agnostic.
Flume enables its tremendous accelerations on first time / “Cold Start” transfers.
Flume can handle unlimited data volumes –there are no caching limitations.
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Flume offers significant improvements to traditional TCP/IP file transmissions that improve with increases in distance and bandwidth.
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Example improvements:
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Bandwidth |
Standard FTP |
Flume
Transport |
Speed
Up
Factor |
Transfer Time (seconds) |
Effective Through-put (KB/sec) |
Transfer Time (seconds) |
Effective Through-put (KB/sec) |
NYC-India |
E1 |
2820 |
35 |
540 |
185 |
5x |
NYC-India |
4x E1 |
2760 |
36 |
105 |
950 |
26x |
China
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Netherlands
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OC - 48 |
780 |
128 |
7 |
14286 |
111x |
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