FASPStream is a product that allows carrying an input stream over WAN distances using the FASP transport technology. Streams are reliably and bit-perfect replicated at the receiving endpoint with minimal and predictable latency, with rates from 10s of Mbps to multiple Gbps, following the standard Aspera FASP security framework. The most common example of an input stream is media, which is encoded as a 'transport stream' (often referred to as MPEG-TS), but it can also be sensor-generated data, logs as generated by an application or database, messages generated by a message queue, a raw disk backup, and so on.
FASPStream generally works with a stream provider, a system external to FASP Stream that produces a stream of data, and a stream consumer, a system external to FASP stream that expects a stream of data. FASPStream supports sending streams of data over unicast and multicast as both inputs and outputs.
When initiating a session between two machines, the machine transferring the stream is the sender and the machine receiving the stream is the receiver. In order to act as a receiver, a machine must have a paid license; the sender license is free. Only receivers can receive streams, but both senders and receivers can send streams to receivers.