Case Study: iTunes achieves high-speed, reliable video uploads — reducing transfers from hours to minutes — with Aspera

Apple's Ubiquitous Online Store Standardizes High-Speed Video Uploads With Aspera Transport

Apple’s iTunes store, which distributes video from more than 40 networks and sells millions of titles, faced escalating content-delivery demands as large video files and more providers strained its upload workflow. The legacy secure FTP process was too slow and unreliable—transfers of multi-gigabyte file sets could take hours or days, and aggregate throughput needed to meet delivery windows reached into the hundreds of megabits.

In early 2006 Apple deployed Aspera’s high‑speed transfer software and providers adopted Aspera Point‑to‑Point, Enterprise Server and Client integrations with Apple’s upload utility. Transfers shrank dramatically (one network cut a 2 GB cross‑country transfer from 3.5 hours to under 10 minutes, and under 5 minutes at full bandwidth), sports broadcasters can send weeks of games overnight, and rate‑control features prevent disruption to corporate networks—prompting broader internal use and new partners to standardize on Aspera.

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