RocketStream leverages its proprietary transports to overcome the performance limitations of TCP when operating over high-speed connections with measurable latency. In addition to performance benefits, RocketStream also provides enhanced delivery services including real-time payload encryption, compression, and verification. Over adequate bandwidth with measurable latency, RocketStream can usually outperform technologies such as FTP by up to 30x.

Rocketstream needs the following Ports to be opened:

Packet latency is the elapsed time required for a packet sent over a network to be received at the destination. A good method to measure latency between two points over the Internet is to use a common computer utility called ping. The ping command will report the round-trip-time (RTT) between any two IP addresses measured in milliseconds. Latency is approximately half the ping time measured.

RocketStream Client, Station, and Server are specifically designed to accelerate file transfers over IP networks. Although the RocketStream protocol is capable of accelerating real-time streams of data, such as audio and video feeds, this is not supported in the current version of the product. Contact RocketStream Sales to discuss future implementations of streaming acceleration.

RocketStream allows users to choose between the traditional RocketStream UDP Protocol, which is optimized for maximum acceleration over high-bandwidth connections (greater than 5 Mb/s), and a new PDP variation optimized for slower connections (1 to 5 Mb/s). The PDP setting is therefore appropriate for users with ADSL, cable modem, and T1/E1 connections, while the traditional UDP setting applies to users with Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, DS-3/E3, OC-3/STM-1, or OC-12/STM-4 connections.

If you are connected to the Internet, you can get an approximation for your network connection’s speeds using some common speed test web sites, like Speedtest.net. However, these results will only be an approximation and will vary if other users are also on your network. For a complete end-to-end test and for non-Internet-connected networks (LANs, private networks, etc.), you can use a common tool like Iperf.

Note that your upload and download speeds may not be the same. The throughput you obtain with RocketStream will depend on the smaller of (a) your network connection and (b) the network connection at the far end of the link.

RocketStream provides real-time payload encryption of content, requiring no pre- or post-processing of the file for maximum security.

RocketStream and Client provide the option to compress files for data transfer. The performance benefits of using compression will depend vastly on the type of data transmitted. Large log files, documents, database backups, mainframe extracts, and text data are highly suitable for compression in transit. Non-compressed images may also be compressed in real-time by RocketStream.

The current version of RocketStream supports Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Macintosh OS X v10.4 (Tiger) or later, Linux Ubuntu 8.x (32-bit), Linux Fedora Core 8, 9 (32-bit). Contact RocketStream Sales for information about Unix.

Both Enterprise and Professional editions of RocketStream have enhanced features for the power user, including real-time payload compression, enhanced security, IP blocking, remote Server administration, job scheduling, hot folders, synchronization, and mirroring. Professional editions of RocketStream are limited to maximum transfer rates of 10 Mbps per connection, while Enterprise editions are unlimited. For a complete side-by-side feature comparison, click here.

The RocketStream Server requires either the RocketStream Client or Station to administer and configure. To view a mapped drive using RocketStream Server you must have the RocketStream Station installed first before installing your RocketStream Server.