SPECIFICATIONS
GENERAL
SECURITY
FILE TRANSFER
FILE SHARING
TRANSFER MANAGEMENT
RENDER FARM (addon)
INTEGRATIONS
| Type | Managed File Transfer(MFT) Software as a Service(Saas) - cloud hosted private instance orchestrating accelerated p2p file transfers through an on-prem BYOS server deployment, providing web deliveries and render farm management. |
| User interface(s) | Desktop application (Java), web application (https, mobile friendly), CLI (Java Command Line Interface) and API (Python 2 & 3) |
| Platforms | Windows™, Unix/Linux™ and MacOS™ (JRE 1.7 compliant). Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, Safari, IE9+. |
SECURITY
| Hosting | VPC (Isolated virtual private cloud instance), ISO 9001/14001/27001 certified. |
| Internal communication | SSL (https @ port 443) |
| Transfer encryption | 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-128, default) or AES-256 (configurable) |
| Authentication provider | Auth0 (SOC2 compliant, no passwords/credentials stored with accsyn) |
| Certification(s) | HBO® (Home Box Office), for use in sensitive film production. More information here. |
| Signup | By invitatation or self service signup allowing users to get app and start uploading without intervention. |
| Proxy | SOCKS (v4 & v5) support. |
FILE TRANSFER
| Protocol | Proprietary accelerated file transfer protocol over TCP (default port range: 45190-45209). |
| Synchronisation algoritm | 100% compliant with UNIX RSync, resumes were left of by comparing and storing file size and modification dates. With additional one way sync mode - delete files that does not exist on source. |
| Speed | On average 2-10x faster than FTP. |
| Office-to-office | Supports site servers allowing easy push and pull between main headquarters and satellite offices or employees working from home. |
| Web transfers | Possibility to user web browser for download and uploading of files/directories less than 5GB in size. |
FILE SHARING
| Admin/employee disk/storage access | Confined access to one or more root shares. |
| User access | Through shares acting as collaborative work areas. Both shares and users can be bound to a queue. |
| Permissions | Defined by ACLs (Access Control Lists). |
| User mapped shares | Option for users to map a share locally, allowing automised file deliveries without user intervention. |
TRANSFER MANAGEMENT
| Jobs | Hierarchical job structure with sub tasks, each task beeing a file or folder on share (server) or local disk (clients). |
| Queues | Que system with individual settings such as priority, bandwidth and hooks. |
| Prioritising | Transfer jobs can be re-ordered, re-queued, paused, resumed and aborted through user interfaces. |
RENDER FARM (addon)
| Farm | Install accsyn as a render server enabling execution of custom Python render app wrapper scripts. |
| Supported renderers | ffmpeg, Maya, Nuke, Unreal Pixelstream, Houdini and much more |
| Wrapper render scripts | Highly configurable render scripts, available open source. |
INTEGRATIONS
| CLI | Simplistic command {<subcommand> <--option> <data>} oriented interface. |
| Python API | With Python 2 and 3 support, available on PyPi and GitHub. |
| Hooks | Configurable scripts run on server and clients upon events - init, failure and finish. |
| ftrack | Full integration with ftrack media project management tool, including a API accessor and transfer action. |
| Publish workflow | Configurable workflow allowing subcontractors to validate and submit work into internal production database. |
| Other | Email notifications (configurable) |
| Tutorial | Extensive tutorials covering different integration scenarios. |