 | | | Aspera SCP software | Aspera SCP software 2005-05-16 - By Thomas Cameron
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On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 10:47 -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 04:24:26PM +0100, Ben wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 May 2005, Ed Wilts wrote:
> >
> > >We're currently looking at the Aspera SCP software for intercontinental
> > >file transfers. Our initial tests have been successful (and much faster
> > >than FTP) but I'd like to know if anybody else is running it and what the
> > >opinions of both the company and product are.
> >
> > So far the only thing I can see that Aspera SCP does that OpenSSH's scp
> > doesn't is cost money.
>
> Actually, it does a bit more than that... One of the things that it
> does nicely is allow us to throttle the connections. We've got enough
> bandwidth to easily saturate our partner's bandwidth and they want to
> limit the amount of data that we're pushing. Aspera SCP takes that into
> account.
>From man scp:
-l limit
Limits the used bandwidth, specified in Kbit/s.
Thomas
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