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bajafresh4life
bajafresh4life

Reputation: 12853

ISP-to-ISP fast file transfer?

Jeff Atwood talked about doing an ISP-to-ISP file transfer:

http://friendfeed.com/e/63fb9e72-6cd5-a8ac-88dc-02ce720033f9/wow-just-did-an-isp-to-isp-file-transfer-650mb-in/

What is this? I tried Googling for it, but couldn't find anything. We have a need to transfer large amounts of data between two data centers, and this sounds interesting.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 790

Answers (5)

user269332
user269332

Reputation:

You should look into using a UDT/UDP based delivery solution to shift the data between a couple of locations..

http://udt.sourceforge.net/

Upvotes: 1

Cory R. King
Cory R. King

Reputation: 2796

FXP might be what you are thinking. The idea is your FTP client tells "FTP Server A" to go fetch a file from "FTP Server B". Great idea in theory, but it is pretty insecure and thus you never find an ISP with FXP enabled.

Upvotes: 0

starblue
starblue

Reputation: 56782

FTP can be used to directly transfer data from one server to another, if the servers allow it. It is called proxy FTP or third-party FTP.

Upvotes: 0

Zhaph - Ben Duguid
Zhaph - Ben Duguid

Reputation: 26956

See also his recent blog post on The Economics of Bandwidth.

It basically means using the main internet backbones, rather than going through the standard channels.

Upvotes: 0

Chad Moran
Chad Moran

Reputation: 12854

He just meant he was transferring data between 2 servers behind large internet connections (OC-1, etc). Particularly between 2 datacenters which usually have internet connections in the measured in gbits.

I don't think he meant he was using some sort of special connection made. Just using the large bandwidth ports provided with the server to transfer the data.

Upvotes: 7

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