Codemasters GAMES & SOFTWARE

Accelerating Worldwide Delivery of Game Builds

at a Glance The Company the file transfer,” said Jonathan Humphrey, IT director at Codemasters. “Not only does Industry Codemasters is a leading developer this slow down the process of getting a Games & Software and publisher of best-selling interactive game completed but it also creates a bigger entertainment products for a global audience margin for error.” Products across multiple gaming platforms and Aspera Enterprise Server channels. Established in 1986, the company’s dominant brands include Colin McRae DiRT, “Aspera’s technology not only pro- Challenge Race Driver GRID, Overlord and Operation vides significantly faster transmission To counter the typical inefficiencies Flashpoint, and recently secured the exclusive speeds, which reduce the margin for of file delivery over the public inter- net, such as high network latency worldwide video game rights to Formula 1. error but also includes comprehensive and low bandwidth utilization, The award winning video game developer has security and data verification schemes which result in slow, unpredictable implemented Aspera high-speed file transfer and unreliable file transfers. to ensure that the possibility of cor- software to enable fast, secure and reliable ruption is reduced significantly. Plus, Benefits transmission and distribution of its game builds at global distances. adaptive bandwidth control allows • Multi-GB file transfers are faster, more predictable and completely concurrent transfers to run with high secure efficiency, enabling us to meet strict THE CHALLENGE • Adaptive bandwidth control al- deadlines.” lows concurrent transfers to run Having previously relied on standards such Jonathan Humphrey with high efficiency as FTP to transfer game builds across EMEA, IT Director at Codemasters Australasia and the Americas, Codemasters sought a solution to counter the typical THE Solution inefficiencies of file delivery over the public Internet, such as high network latency and Using Aspera’s Enterprise Server software low bandwidth utilization, which result in slow, built upon Aspera’s FASP™ transport unpredictable and unreliable file transfers. technology, multi-GB file transfers are now faster, more predictable and completely “We work across many different time zones secure. Transfers from international partner with games developers and generally, the facilities on broadband links of only a few greater the distance, the longer it takes for 1 cODEMASTERS GAMES & SOFTWARE

Benefits Mbps now fully utilize the available bandwidth, are three times faster than before, and will continue to speed up as the bandwidth capacity is extended in the future. During heavy use Maximum speed: Enables large data set transfers over any network periods, Aspera’s adaptive rate control enables concurrent transfers to maintain fast and stable at maximum speed, source disk speeds while being fair to other traffic and giving to destination disk, regardless of the option to adjust bandwidth priority and “We consider Aspera to be an network conditions or distance. resulting finish times of individual transfers. important business partner of ours. Extraordinary bandwidth control: Provides precise rate control (pre- Not only does the technology have set and on-the-fly) for guaranteed THE BENEFITS clear and demonstrable benefits transfer times. Adaptive rate control but the company also listens to fully utilizes available bandwidth “Aspera’s technology not only provides while remaining fair to all other our feedback and has already network traffic. significantly faster transmission speeds, which reduce the margin for error but incorporated changes based on Complete security: includes built-in security using open also includes comprehensive security and our needs.” standard cryptography for user data verification schemes to ensure that Jonathan Humphrey authentication, data encryption and IT Director at Codemasters the possibility of corruption is reduced data integrity verification. significantly. Plus, adaptive bandwidth Software only solution: Uses control allows concurrent transfers to run with high efficiency, enabling us to meet strict standard, unmodified IP networking and is implemented in software as deadlines,” Humphrey said. “We consider Aspera to be an important business partner an application protocol. Requires no of ours. Not only does the technology have clear and demonstrable benefits but the changes to the operating system or company also listens to our feedback and has already incorporated changes based on driver installation on the file transfer endpoints, no new appliances, and our needs. Moving forward we’ll be looking to use Aspera Console and Aspera Client no network changes. Software for further internal distribution of game builds throughout internal departments.” Robust: Automatically resumes partial transfers and retries failed transfers.

Flexible open architecture:

Supports interoperable file and directory transfers between all major operating systems and provides a complete, modern software API to build upon.

About Codemasters

Codemasters is a leading developer and publisher of best-selling interactive entertainment products for a global audience across multiple gaming platforms and channels.

About Aspera Aspera is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world’s data at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. Based on its patented FASP™ protocol, Aspera software fully utilizes existing infrastructures to deliver the fastest, most predictable file- transfer experience. Aspera’s core technology delivers unprecedented control over bandwidth, complete security and uncompromising reliability. Organizations across a variety of industries on six continents rely on Aspera software for the business-critical transport of their digital assets. 2 Learn more at www.asperasoft.com