Implementing a new file transfer solution can significantly improve the way in which your company works especially if you’re in the graphic arts or prepress industry.  Providing a range of file transfer protocols to enable you to work with your customer in the way that they want to transfer files, is only part of the battle.  If you don’t have the infrastructure in place, that is the Internet connectivity (bandwidth) then you won’t be able to take advantage of your new solution.

During my regular trawl of the Internet I found a great article which helps users to understand a little more about how long it takes to send files over the Internet.  The article, written by Greg Ferro goes on to explain about how latency and data encyption can add to the overall time taken to transfer your files.

If you need to analyse the throughput required on your Internet connection to transfer large files at a reasonable speed then have a read of this article - How Long Does It Take to Transfer Data?

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