Fast File Transfer

The top of a globe with a stop watch speeding bye.

The explosion of streaming services, the globalization of content, and multi-channel, multi-screen distribution have media companies producing more in less time. The amount and size of high-resolution video, dailies, graphic, review-and-approve, promo, and PR files — not to mention all the master versions — have only increased, which puts fast file transfer at a premium. There is simply less time to move more. Any obstacles to transferring files quickly throughout the production, post-production, and delivery process can lead to disaster for a project. 

Signiant has long been a market leader in fast file transfer, holding several patents in this area, and our software is relied upon to move petabytes of high-value content every day. Each of Signiant’s products leverages our proprietary fast file transfer technology, moving content up to 100x faster than standard Internet transmission speeds. Signiant’s acceleration technology can move any size file or data set over any IP network while taking advantage of all available bandwidth.

While our transport technology adds value in many situations, the speed difference is most notable with large data sets, long distances, or highly-congested networks and, somewhat counter-intuitively, when there is more bandwidth.

  • Signiant’s transport technology eliminates the impact of latency and packet loss
  • The entire file is always sent byte for byte, without compression
  • Signiant adds Checkpoint Restart on top of its transport technology to automatically restart any interrupted transfer from the point of failure, without losing data

Signiant software products specialize in fast file transfer, no matter the size or needs of your business. Media Shuttle is the easiest and most reliable way for people to send any size of file, anywhere, fast. With more than 1,000,000 global end-users, Media Shuttle is the de facto standard in the industry for person-initiated file transfers. Jet is a powerfully simple solution for automated, fast file transfers between locations, between partners and to and from the cloud.

Compare Your Speed with Signiant

Take our File Transfer Calculator for a drive. Though we don’t offer options for every city and bandwidth, you can easily get a sense of the performance improvement you gain with Signiant products. Play around with different file sizes, bandwidth and locations. Note that the larger the file size, the higher the bandwidth and the further the location, the more you will benefit by using Signiant’s file acceleration technology. Of course, real-world results may vary depending on your specific network configuration.

Calculate Now

More on the Topic...

  • A time lapse of cars driving passed Big Ben.
    | Blog

    Signiant & Pixit Media Integration Rapidly Locates Media Assets and Accelerates File Transfers

    Signiant and Pixit Media have collaborated to create an integration of Pixit’s PixStor rapid search with intelligent and accelerated file transfer using Signiant’s Media Shuttle.
  • ""
    | Blog

    Large File Transfer to Amazon S3 Media Analysis Solution

    Media Analysis Solution has a simple web-based UI that allows you to upload media files to Amazon S3, search through your library and analyze and extract metadata. However, if you work with higher res video, the 100MB file size limitation is inhibitive.
  • 2 people working at a table next to each other, looking at each other.
    | Blog

    Trouble with SharePoint file size limits? How to share large files over 2GB fast

    Even though the maximum file size limit for SharePoint 2016 is 10GB and 15GB for SharePoint Online, here’s why you might be having trouble sharing large files over 2GB.
  • A time lapse of cars driving through a city.
    | Press Releases

    Signiant Extends its Presence in Asia with New Partner, Ideal Systems

    Today, Signiant announced it is extending its presence in Asia by partnering with Ideal Systems, one of the regions leading broadcast, audio visual and media systems integrators.
  • Some skyscrapers and other buildings in a city that signify architecture.
    | Blog

    Investing in more bandwidth? Don’t get charged extra to use it

    We expect to pay Internet providers for bandwidth. However, deploying UDP-based acceleration software is necessary to ensure full utilization of bandwidth, and some acceleration software providers charge based on bandwidth usage.
  • A map of the world with dots on many major cities and yellow lines connecting them.
    | Blog

    Moving data across the global content supply chain

    One of our technology partners, Dell EMC, caught up with Signiant CTO Ian Hamilton at NAB and produced this great video about the global media supply chain.
  • 2 cheetahs standing around in the wild.
    | Blog

    Why your business needs intelligent large file acceleration technology

    If you’re evaluating file acceleration technologies, for the first time or because you’re considering switching vendors, we’ve put together an eGuide that compiles feedback from our customers in the Media & Entertainment space, highlighting the top 10 reasons why they chose Signiant.
  • Drone 3D data management
    | Blog

    A New Era of 3D Data Management

    Using drones for 3D renderings has opened up new possibilities to not only see our world recreated, but to explore and understand it in new ways. Paul Tice, CEO of ToPa 3D, discusses the challenges of 3D data management in his thorough review of Media Shuttle, Signiant’s SaaS solution for high speed large file transfers.
  • A globe covered in pictures of people's faces, in the midst of the universe.
    | Blog

    Why We Love Our Customers: 2018 Report

    This year, I wanted to reflect on the trail blazers, the early adopters of file acceleration technologies that have helped shape global content ingest and distribution for Media & Entertainment. In doing so, they have and are continuing to pave the way for other industries with growing file sizes that need to be transferred quickly and securely over public and private IP networks.
  • CBN Portal
    | Blog

    Senior Video Editor at CBN Praises Media Shuttle

    Michael Trauffer, Senior Video Editor & Post Production System Administrator at the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), wrote a great comment on one of our LinkedIn posts about their positive experience integrating Media Shuttle into their global distribution workflow. CBN is a brand new customer and thrilled by Michael’s feedback, we contacted him to learn more.
  • A Media Shuttle dashboard showing status, transfers per month and a summary.
    | Blog

    Media Shuttle’s “Delegated Administration” Simplifies Tasks for Media Operations and IT

    While we can’t remove all the complexity from an increasingly complex media world, with Media Shuttle’s delegated administration, we can make it easier for technical staff and operations managers to do their jobs.
  • A courier handing two packages to a person.
    | Blog

    Move Even Faster With Auto Delivery

    Media Shuttle’s most popular add-on feature, Auto Delivery, eliminates the need for end users to manually initiate uploads or downloads of new content and brings even more speed and efficiency to day-to-day operations.