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File Transmission
FileFlow, a Norwegian company, made its presence known with its FastSend and FastStore online services. FileFlow is relatively new to the North American scene and is viewed as a competitor to Wam!Net. FastSend enables the secure transmission of documents at higher speeds than traditional FTP or e-mail by reducing file size to speed transmission. FastSend's compression and transmission technology can be used with files of any size or format across a standard Internet connection. While based on open file formats, FastSend also takes advantage of FileFlow's proprietary image compression technology to develop still-image compression format. FileFlow's FAST Image Transfer (FIT) format produces significantly smaller file sizes than the equivalent JPEG file, requiring less disk space, reducing download time, bandwidth cost and server loads. The FIT format uses only a single image file for both thumbnail and full-size image creations, and supports spatial scaling of displayed images and a variety of color models such as gray, RGB, CMYK and L*a*b. FastStore also provides off-site archiving and access to digital images.