Introduction A peer-to-peer connection in telecommunications relates to a communication between two terminals or nodes. Peer-to-peer is shortened to P2P sometimes. In sharing platforms or in other data-sharing protocols between people, this use of P2P is separate from the use of P2P which means peer-to-peer. For instance, a telephone call when one phone is connected to another, and only the others could hear what one caller says. In contrast, this is a topology for point-to-multipoint or broadcast communication, where several nodes can receive information from a node. Additional instances of peer-to-peer links include leased lines, microwave relays, and two-way radio. For example, radio and television broadcasts are points-to-multiple. Have you used P2P? P2P transfer is now widely used to share files by many enterprises in their work after LAN, FTP, and HTTP are outdated. P2P transfer, known as peer-to-peer transfer, is an instant file transfer mode, which aimed to enable all clients to provide resources, including bandwidth, storage space, and computing capacity. P2P transfer technology has wide application scenarios, such as audio, video, and data sharing in various formats. How does P2P technology transfer files instantly? Why P2P transfer is accepted widely by many enterprises? In this article, let’s start with these two questions and explore the answers to peer-to-peer transfer. Everything about P2P Transfer in One Picture With the growing number of IP cores combined on one chip, the system-on-chip architecture is able to deploy complicated applications. The enormous need for communication and the ample computing capability on the chip put a considerable burden on the architecture in communication. Scalable communication architectures are therefore needed to implement future systems efficiently. Two types of communication systems, namely peer-to-peer and bus-based designs have traditionally been explored. At the expense of the specific channels between all communicating IP pairs, P2P communication designs can provide the most communication performance. However, in terms of high complexity, expense, and design effort these designs are poorly scalable. By contrast, bus systems can connect a few dozen IP cores economically and eliminate the complexity of the system and the specific cables required by P2P systems. The traditional HTTP transfer is to copy data to the client via server, thus the transfer speed is restricted by the bandwidth. Especially in today's network environment, the large amount of clients connects to one server, the bandwidth of servers will be shared, and the bandwidth of clients is difficult to be fully utilized, resulting in low efficiency of overall data transfer. In general data transfer, client A and client B is essential to build a connection to the server, and then data will be transfer through the channel built by the server and data recipient. P2P transfer technology builds the direct channel between client A and client B, shorten the original upload-download "1+1" time to 1; Secondly, "client A-server-client b" is turned to "client A-client b", which does not transit through the server and does not consume the expensive storage space of the server. Figure 1. P2P Transfer in One Picture Cons & Pros of P2P Transfer P2P technology is popular in many industries such as film and media, Internet TV, telemedicine, it not only provides freedom and facility to data transfer but also integrates all potential Internet resources. In technical expert’s opinion, P2P transfer is a kind of instant technology for quick data moving and sharing, it is beneficial to creating opportunities for enterprises in today’s market environment driven by data. However, with 5G emerging and the continuous development of information technology, P2P transfer is undoubtedly a double-blade sword, so it’s difficult for enterprises to step forward. Pros: Low cost: save the cost on the server. Efficiency improved: remove the intermediate procedures and establish simple connections. High stability: eliminate the server-centered single-point service in the past, form the decentralized P2P transfer organization, which solved the fault problem caused by the central single point. Cons: Network bandwidth resources are consumed in large quantities: The concurrent connection of P2P transfer makes the resources consumed in large quantities, it is easy to cause network congestion and reduce the performance of other applications. Inconvenient management: The P2P transfer is decentralized, the amount of users is huge thus it’s hard to take care of all users. Security risks of data leakage: The widely use of P2P transfer leads to someone use the loopholes in the system to invade user privacy and destroy data. Some criminals even add viruses in the P2P transfer process, which poses a threat to users' computer security. The P2P transfer technology is not strong enough to satisfy enterprises’ various needs, therefore, there must be a breakthrough. According to whether the clients are in the same network environment, the difficulty degree of P2P transfer technology is different. What modern technologies can be used to optimize and how to optimize? Let's continue to explore the principle of P2P technology and try to find a breakthrough. P2P technology upgrading Based on NAT+Raysync The transmission protocol of Raysync has abandoned the use of transmission messages as both byte counts and TCP protocol. With its revolutionary UDP transmission method, Raysync overcomes faults in existing TCP-based file transfer protocols . The transmission speed of FTP/HTTP is hundreds of times higher and is not reduced by the size of the file, transmit distance, or network difficulties. Raysync can offer secure internal and external sharing of data, enabling you to securely upload, download and edit files on a user-friendly interface. Send huge files via mobile devices and web browsers in every location and anywhere. Characteristics Raysync transmission protocol may make full use of a broad network of bandwidths for the fastest transfer of data. It can enable users in the huge data distribution application scenario to finish the big data transfer in the least time. The multi-channel parallel transmission feature of the link is supported by RaySync Transmission Protocol. When a client interfaces between point B and point A, a multiplicity of unrelated data streams can quickly be transferred in Parallel via the multi-parallel channel property. The transfer of these data streams does not require the handshake connection process, which considerably enhances the transmission in real-time. Raysync transmission protocol is UDP-based and may transit over various NAT devices smoothly. Here we divided into two situations for analysis: On the same network Assume that the internal network interface is 1000M, the LAN bandwidth is 10M, and the bandwidth utilization rate is 50%. Client A and Client B are in the same network environment, as shown in the following figure. If the traditional file transfer method is adopted, the A user needs to upload the file to the server first, and then B can download it from the server, there only 10M network bandwidth will be utilized in the whole transfer process. While through peer-to-point transfer, A and B can directly establish a connection, file transfer makes full use of the network bandwidth of 1000M, and the transfer efficiency can be improved by 100X. Figure 2. P2P technology on the same network Raysync combined the P2P technology with Raysync ultra-high-speed transfer protocol, the network bandwidth is fully utilized up to 96%. The file transfer process is accelerated, the TB-level big data and massive data transfer have never been easier. Figure 3. P2P technology upgrading Based on NAT+Raysync On the different network Client A and client B are in two different network environments, and they need to try to connect with the target end to judge whether they can penetrate the network to establish communication. The P2P transfer between two clients will be different according to different clients. Several common P2P transfer methods through middleware include Relaying, Connection reversal, UDP hole punching. Through the following characteristic comparison table, we can simply grasp the characteristics and application scenarios of these methods. Table 1. Characteristics and compassion table According to the methods listed above, Raysync P2P transfer will try to connect with the recipient end in priority. If it is failed to connect, it will be connected by reverse connection or UDP punching. If it is still failed to connect, then the server transfers will be adopted. Raysync will automatically select the best transfer mode in the whole process, reduce the network burden and make full use of network resources. Besides, the P2P transfer based on UDP needs to consider the type of NAT, because the penetration ways of different NAT combinations are not consistent, some can penetrate, while some cannot. Figure 4. P2P technology on the different networks Digging deep into NAT penetration technology, Raysync combines more than 10 NAT penetration technologies with Raysyncb ultra-high-speed transfer protocol and simultaneously applies on P2P transfer. In practical application, the penetration effect of these 10 NAT combinations can meet the current P2P transfer needs. Even in the face of a few impenetrable situations, Raysync may still be able to improve the transfer efficiency and find the optimal solution for P2P transfer. A More Universal P2P Transfer through Innovation on Speed and Management Transfer acceleration ensures efficiency improving In the peer-to-peer transfer, the patented Raysync ultra-high-speed transfer protocol is adopted. This protocol can eliminate the bottleneck at the bottom layer, it is immune to limitation of the traditional network and hardware, fully utilize the network bandwidth, and realize ultra-low latency, high speed, and end-to-end output service, the transfer rate is improved by nearly one hundred times, thus easily achieves the safe, controllable and stable transfer of TB-level large files and massive small files. Figure 5. P2P technology on the different networks about penetration and acceleration Comparison of the peer-to-peer transfer efficiency Test environment: Shenzhen-Beijing, network latency 35ms~45ms, packet loss rate 1% Server: Alibaba cloud Shenzhen, CentOS 8.3, 2 vCPU 4 GiB, bandwidth 100M, SSD disk ClientA: Alibaba cloud Shenzhen, CentOS 8.3, 2 vCPU 4 GiB, bandwidth 100M, SSD disk ClientB: Alibaba cloud Beijing, CentOS 8.3, 2 vCPU 4 GiB, bandwidth 100M, SSD disk File transfer is automatic For team collaboration, Raysync supports automatically receive peer-to-peer files from your partners. Compared to the traditional P2P transfer method, Raysync saves your time spend on manually file reception. The auto file reception can be realized with one click to enable the “Allow to receive transfer files from partners” button. A data asset is strictly monitored The admin user can monitor every single task in the admin console. Enter Raysync admin console – peer-to-peer transfer, you could view the peer-to-peer transfer account, IP, task name, receiver ID, country, states, city, total file transmission quantity, and transmission speed. In the meantime, it supports viewing the details of the peer-to-peer transfer task being transmitted and stopping the operation, and supports one-click viewing and downloading for historical transfer tasks. All files and individuals traceable, each P2P task can be controlled by the admin. The comprehensive upgrade made by Raysync on P2P transfer overcomes the drawbacks of file and user management, enables peer-to-peer transfer to better meet the enterprise needs, and helps enterprises manage data more efficiently. Bank-level data security Based on the needs of customers in industries such as film and media, IT Internet, Raysync adopts AES-256+TLS encryption technology between client and server to guarantee end-to-end data security. Aiming at the port problem, Raysync only needs to expose one port, which can meet all users' access needs and greatly reduce the risk of firewall port exposure; Hash verification protection is carried out at the transfer message level, file block, and the whole file to ensure the integrity of the transfer content. The optimization made by Raysync on peer-to-peer transfer, which has outstanding performance in performance, reliability, and security. The upgraded management design meets the needs of modern enterprises. As a one-stop solution provider for large file transfer, Raysync can be used as a tool for enterprises to realize fast file cooperation, and can also be used as an enterprise data management platform to provide data transfer services for industries such as film and media, finance, IT Internet, etc.

MFT means managed file transfer. The term MFT began to appear in the mid-2000s. In the field of file transfer, it is a brand-new method of data transfer that enterprises have begun to use, and it is clearly distinguished from "file transfer protocol" in the 1980s. As defined by Gartner, “Managed file transfer software and services enable users to manage and monitor file transfers within and between organizations.” In this definition, Gartner uses “manage” and “monitor” to highlight and explain the key differences between MFT and FTP. - Manage – means to manage all file transfers using one interface across all business units, operations, systems，applications, partners, etc. - Monitor – means to monitor all file transfers in one centralized location which in turn means better governance, compliance，and reduced IT costs. Driven by increasingly stringent privacy regulations and the need to quickly transfer and track files globally, many organizations are in the process of replacing their legacy FTP systems and moving towards MFT solutions. In fact, managed file transfer solutions are gaining the most momentum. We explain to you what does MFT means? At present, we easily find that no matter in the fields of health care, government, technology，or media，the information now will inevitably move around. In some cases, such data may have to leave the organization's security controls to enter customers or other business systems. The traditional file sharing way can comply with personal needs, for example, sending private messages or videos. But this kind of way does not comply with the enterprise needs. MFT is dedicated to creating a more secure and efficient IT environment within the enterprise. Enterprises that use MFT solutions often deal with sensitive information on a regular basis, making security the core of their business functions. Managed File Transfer, as the acronym implies, is a service that manages data and ensures its security during transfer. Enterprise organizations often use it, and it can get rid of slow and temporary methods such as FTP and HTTP. In the final analysis, a good MFT solution should simplify your transfer process and comply with security standards such as SSL encryption solution provided by Raysync). A good MFT solution should include: 1. The secure connection. 2. Encrypt data being stored or "still". 3. A reverse proxy that acts as a pass-through and does not write any unencrypted data to the server. 4. The ability to support an organization's security policies, such as password expiration or SSL.

About this event Tired of sharing files with slow internet? Join our free webinar and live demo sessions to learn how Raysync offers you a high-speed solution that is 200 times faster than your traditional FTP transfer methods, utilizing up to 96% of your bandwidth that fulfil your demand efficiently! Date: 11AM - 12PM, 18th August 2021 In this webinar, you may learn: - Who we are? - Robust HPC & Raysync - Introducing Raysync: The Fast File Transfer Solution - A patented tranmission protocol utilizing up to 96% of your bandwidth and transfer files at long-distance across borders at maximum speed. - A complete enterprise solution for secure file-sharing, collaboration and management. - Product & Interactive Demo: - Demo: Transnational transfer between different locations - Demo: Download/Upload tests from participants - Showcasing the Admin Console & User Interface - Q&A + Prize Giveaways Win prize giveaways that worth $3599 during our interactive session: - 1x Raysync Enterprise License with Unlimited users - 2x Raysync SMB License with maximum 50 users - 10x Touch 'n Go Cash Credits worth RM20 More info regarding Raysync: We’re proud that Raysync - our Cross-Border, High-Performance and Large File Transmission Enterprise Solution, is able to tackle your needs. With its industry-leading core technology in the transmission engine, Raysync is able to transfer your files blazingly fast, in fact, 80-90% faster than your conventional FTP that fulfils your demand efficiently. Massive Small File Transfer Raysync is designed with a new data access technology to make sure that the upload speed for your small file transfers can reach up to 4,981 files per second and a download speed of 5293 files per second!! This translates to a transfer speed that is 200 times faster than FTP and 2 times quicker than your read/write speed on your local drives! This dramatically improves data transmission efficiency, stability, and effectively reduces data latency. Transfer Speed Acceleration Upgrade Raysync’s ultra-high-speed transmission operation is simple, with the transmission engine activated, it will allow the FTP transmission speed to be increased by a thousand times, achieving a speed ratio of 100:1 second. Based on the new UDP protocol and congestion control mechanism, our Raysync team utilise the new ACK algorithm to quickly recover any packet loss and avoid congestion queues, which greatly increases the transmission speed and maintains stability. Cross-Border Secure File Transfer Raysync adopts an advanced transmission technology that is unaffected by network delay and packet loss, making it more stable and efficient than the traditional file transmission technologies such as FTP, HTTP or CIFS. Raysync is also designed to be user-friendly and easy-to-deploy supporting cross-platform operations, free from file size and network type restrictions, thus enabling large-scale, and cross-border TB-levels large file transfers. Highlighted Features: - High-Speed Transfer: The unique transmission optimization protocol in Raysync provides businesses with the best network experience with 99.9% availability. - User-Friendly Interface: Standardized equipment is easy to install and supports bypass deployment to greatly reduce implementation costs. - Flexibility to Expand: The newly added networking point has zero impact on the original network structure and has superior scalability that help resolves the expansion of branches at any time. - Secure Data: Users can set passwords freely and encrypt them with asymmetric RSA/AES algorithm. The operation is blazingly fast and extremely secure while maintaining low consumption of system resources.

The circulation of data has made some progress at the government level, especially since the 21st century, with the help of the power of science and technology, the collected data are more abundant, and the analysis based on these data can help decision-makers make more scientific decisions. For example, the city's mobile phone signaling data can accurately reflect the traffic congestion in each section of the city, and the traffic management department can optimize the traffic route accordingly. Data can help government departments make scientific decisions in advance and provide more convenient and comfortable services for residents. However, these big data managed by the government are heterogeneous, multi-source, massive, dynamic, and isolated, which also makes government agencies face severe challenges. Raysync simplifies the tedious IT management process for the government, and at the same time, ensures the security and controllability of documents. Ensure the security of data during sharing: Raysync adopts AES-256 and SSL encryption algorithms which are standard in the industry to ensure the security of confidential files, policies, and other key information documents; without fear of packet loss and latency, even the remote confidential cooperation of government departments and unreliable location information transmission can be safely and reliably completed. Accelerate inter-departmental cooperation to fully share the data of government agencies: support the rapid transmission of information across regions, and easily realize inter-departmental and inter-organizational cooperation. Make data easy to manage: government agencies have a large number of departments and users, and Raysync provides user management functions for management to realize hierarchical authority restrictions. A single user interface simplifies the transfer process between departments and various organizations.

Company: Studio 51 Industry: Motion Pictures & Film Product: Raysync SMB Profile: As a visual effects production studio founded in 2013, Studio 51 is dedicated to film, entertainment and advertising industries. Collaborating with the local and global network of experienced talented artists, Studio 51 can provide a broad range of creative solutions. They offer professional services including concept design, pre-production, shoot supervision, and post-production. Challenges: The challenge Studio 51 faced is to exchange data around the world. Because of the inherent problems associated with transferring large files abroad via traditional methods, such as latency and packet loss, the transfer time was unacceptably slow, resulting in avoidable downtime and overall workflow inefficiency. Solutions: To overcome the challenges, Studio 51 deployed Raysync SMB. The Raysync admin console is deployed in Hong Kong, then the fast and secure data exchanging is guaranteed between Studio 51’s other offices in Germany, Sweden, and India through Raysync high-speed transfer protocol. Raysync SMB provides Studio 51 with fast file transfer speeds and maximizes their bandwidth and guarantees that all of the content that distribute or receive arrives on time. Besides, Raysync helps Studio 51 to create multiple user groups and give them different access permission, which simplified the work procedure, made the management easier, and greatly improved the work efficiency. Results: Raysync high speed file transfer solutions enabled The Studio 51 team to edit and transfer all of their content from across the globe at blazing speeds. With the enhanced methods from Raysync SMB, the Studio 51 was able to achieve speeds hundreds of times faster than traditional methods, ensuring the delivery of large files from anywhere in the world, while providing security, reliability. Workflow: Raysync & Studio 51 Conclusion We were fortunate to work with Studio 51, and the cooperation and communication between the two parties was very smooth during the cooperation. Through this cooperation, Raysync has a deeper understanding of file transfer in the film industry and will continue to improve the transfer technology in the future. Once again, we wish studio 51 the best of luck!

"If by 2020, the company has not chosen to go to the cloud, it will be a very rare situation, just like we don't have the Internet today." —Gartner, an authoritative IT research and consulting company. According to the research statistics report, the scale of the enterprise online disk market has grown by more than 50% in 2017. It is estimated that the enterprise online disk penetration rate will reach 80% by 2020, and the enterprise online disk market is booming. The business development of enterprises is increasingly dependent on the support of data. Traditional storage methods not only make enterprise data lack effective management, it is difficult to ensure security, and it is even more difficult to build an enterprise knowledge base system. Now more and more enterprises are adopting cloud services. With its powerful file acceleration engine, administrator permission settings, and massive cloud storage space, Raysync enterprise network disk provides the impetus for the rapid growth of enterprises! Within an enterprise, team members often need to transmit and share business data, and sometimes need to summarize and report work data. In Raysync Cloud, you can create equivalent office space in the cloud-based on your project, enterprise architecture, or business. We support the cloud sharing of training materials, business documents, project materials, and other information within the team. Compared with traditional FTP, email attachments, and other file transfer methods, the transmission speed of Raysync Cloud is increased by 100 times per second, which greatly improves the internal core data of the enterprise. Circulation efficiency. Outside the enterprise, users can generate files of any size in the online disk and send them to distributors or customers through the external chain of the online disk, breaking the limitation of the size of attachments in the mailbox; Raysync Cloud supports multi-threading and resumable uploading, ensuring that large files are one Fast and stable distribution to multiple; barrier-free transfer of large files to foreign countries in seconds to help enterprises expand their global business; SSL encryption technology throughout the process, multiple methods to ensure the security of corporate digital assets. According to the needs of the enterprise and the pain points of the entire industry, Raysync Cloud enterprise network disk conducts in-depth system research and analysis within the enterprise and provides customized high-speed file transfer solutions. With the continuous improvement of enterprise users' understanding and awareness of cloud services, many enterprises actively consider integrating their data storage into the cloud.

Managed file transfer refers to a software or a service that manages the secure transfer of data from one computer to another through a network, with the benefit that the MFT solution should offer more security than standard file transfer protocol , and possibly include monitoring, alerting, reporting and auditing and other security features to prevent data loss. Managed file transfer software is a more reliable and efficient means for secure data and file transfer, outpacing and outperforming applications such as file transfer protocol , hypertext transfer protocol , secure file transfer protocol and other methods. What are the benefits of managed file transfer? - Compliance standards - Strong encryption helps companies avoid compliance failures. - Visibility - Keep track of your transfers, and who has access to them. Keep track of your transfers, and who has access to them - Security - MFT offers a preemptive security strategy with real-time monitoring, and validation security policies and controls to protect data in transit or at rest. GoAnwhere MFT GoAnywhere MFT is a secure file transfer solution that automates and encrypts data using industry-standard protocols . With auditing and reporting, GoAnywhere can help organizations meet compliance regulations like PCI DSS and HIPAA. Signiant Media Shuttle Signiant, a provider of MFT alternatives based in Lexington, provides Media Shuttle, which the vendor states provide an easy fast way to transfer large media files. Media Shuttle’s proven file acceleration technology speeds up transfers over public and private networks up to 200 times faster than standard methods . FileCatalyst Direct FileCatalyst Direct is a suite of server and client applications that accelerates point-to-point file transfers at speeds of up to 10 Gbps. By adding on one or multiple client applications, you can expect to see increased productivity within your workflows and an overall improvement in business efficiencies. Raysync Large File Transfer Raysync is an enterprise-level large files transfer tool, which supports 10 Gigabit bandwidth and provides ultra-high-speed data transfer engine and transfer management services for enterprise users. Based on the self-developed UDP protocol, Raysync transfers your files of any size or format at maximum speed with minimal packet loss regardless of the network environment, hundreds of times faster than FTP, while ensuring secure and reliable delivery. Besides, relied on the banking standard TLS+AES-256 encryption, Raysync also protects your data safe from all the potential threatens. Your files do not need to take risks anymore.

Raysync has been focusing on providing one-stop high-speed file transfer solutions for enterprises since its establishment. As the leading brand of enterprise-level large file transfer, Raysync has provided high-performance, stable, and secure data transfer services for 2W+ enterprises in IT Internet, finance, film and television, biological genes, manufacturing, and many other fields. Raysync $0 program is a special offer we designed for all enterprises and organizations, we are sending out the Raysync Pro for free, it costs only $0 for you to get the 100/150 days free trial. Product: Raysync Pro Target: Enterprise users Date: 10th September – 31st October Free Trial: Accounting from the date you get the License Special Bonus: You will enjoy 20% off for Raysync Pro during the period of the 100-day free trial. After the end of the free trial, you still have a chance to enjoy the 10% discount within one month. Raysync high-speed transfer protocol Based on the self-developed high-speed transfer protocol, Raysync breaks through the transfer defects of traditional FTP and HTTP, the transfer rate is increased by 100 times compared with FTP, and the bandwidth utilization rate is over 96%, which can easily meet the extremely fast transfer requirements of TB-level large files and massive small files. What are the main functions of Raysync Pro? In this "100-day free trial program", Raysync will fully open the file transfer and transfer management functions of professional software. There is no limit to employees and team members to access the group and enjoy 1000Mbps network bandwidth. Supported Systems: Windows 7-10 64-bit operation system, Windows Server 2008 64-bit operation system and above, all released versions of Linux kernel 2.6.26 and above, Linux CentOS 6.x/7.x, Linux Ubuntu 12.04 and above, Bebian8 and above. For $0, the free trial of Raysync Pro for 150-day is also available in this project. At the same time, for the enterprises participating in the program, Raysync has released a special offer. You will enjoy 20% off for Raysync Pro during the period of the 100-day free trial. After the end of the free trial, you still have a chance to enjoy the 10% discount within one month.