Long and lossy links
Home broadband, shared Wi-Fi and long routes are where TCP loses most of the bandwidth that is actually available.
Distributed and remote teams
Move large files between remote teams as if they shared a building.
Teams now span cities, home offices and partner facilities, and the files did not get smaller. The link between two remote people is long, often lossy, and rarely symmetric. RIPTON CLOUD is built for that path, and gives the team one record of what moved.
Benchmark figures come from RIPTON CLOUD's published EC2 test at roughly 150 ms latency and 3% packet loss. Home and mobile links vary; measure yours.
Evaluated transfer path
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Remote workstation
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RIPTON Desktop or browser
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Site node
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Facility storage
The remote-team problem
Distance turns a normal handoff into an overnight job.
A colleague across the country is, in network terms, farther away than the whole office was. Round-trip time and packet loss on consumer and hotel links drag ordinary TCP transfers to a crawl, and uploads that fail at 90% start again from zero.
Uploads are the slow direction
Most consumer connections upload at a fraction of their download speed, so sending from home is the bottleneck.
Files scattered across tools
Drive links, chat attachments and personal drop folders leave nobody able to say where the current version is.
Workflows
Where the transfer path matters most.
Turnovers · renders · analysis results
Remote contributor to facility
An editor, artist or analyst sends a package from a home workstation to the site node near the team's storage, from a browser or with RIPTON Desktop for the accelerated path.
Nightly handoffs · project moves · archive seeds
Site to site
Two offices or facilities exchange prepared packages node to node over the RIPT protocol, on a schedule or on demand.
Reviews · client deliveries · vendor drops
Team intake and delivery
A Shared Inbox per team collects incoming work; recipients download from scoped links, and every transfer shows up in one panel.
RIPTON CLOUD in the workflow
What a distributed team gets
The product earns its place by moving prepared data between endpoints—not by claiming ownership of every system around it.
Built for the long link
RIPT uses UDP with rate control and block-level retransmission, so latency and loss cost far less than they do a TCP stream. In the published test at 150 ms and 3% loss, a 1 GB file finished in 4 minutes against 30.
Resume, not restart
Browser transfers resume from the last completed batch; Desktop transfers resume from the last verified block. A completed package is verified before it is marked delivered.
Nodes where the data lives
Each site runs a licensed transfer node next to its storage; the hosted control plane authorises and records. Add a site by adding a node.
Identity and roles
SAML SSO, roles and full audit from the Professional plan; SCIM on Business. External collaborators never need a seat.
One view of every transfer
Progress, completion, failures and download events for the whole team in one place, with notifications and webhooks for the systems around it.
No generic speed promise
Home links vary hour by hour. The evaluation measures your team's actual routes, including the slow upload direction, before anyone commits.
Product boundary
The transfer layer between sites and people.
RIPTON CLOUD moves packages between the places your team works. It is not a shared drive, a sync client or a collaboration suite, and it fits beside those.
What it covers
- Person-to-site, site-to-site and person-to-person packages
- Browser and Desktop transfer paths
- Shared Inboxes and scoped recipient links
- SSO, roles, audit and notifications
What stays with your stack
- Continuous file synchronisation
- Real-time collaborative editing
- Chat or project management
- VPN or network provisioning
Evaluation path
Measure the routes your team actually uses
Pick two or three real people in real places. The numbers from their links are the numbers that matter.
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Choose the routes
A home workstation to the facility, the facility to a partner site, and one person to another. Note each link's upload and download speed.
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Send real packages
The same file set over each route, from the browser and from RIPTON Desktop, alongside the tool used today.
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Record elapsed time and retries
Including the slow upload direction and any interruption; resume behaviour is part of the result.
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Decide per route
Some routes will show a large gain, some a small one. Roll out where it pays.
FAQ
Questions technical buyers ask.
Does every remote person need to install something?
No. A browser is enough to send and receive through Web Edge. RIPTON Desktop is optional and adds the accelerated path for large packages or poor links.
Do we need a node at every location?
Nodes go where storage is: facilities and offices. People at home send to those nodes; they do not run one.
How do we handle people joining and leaving?
Named users are managed centrally, with SAML SSO from the Professional plan and SCIM on Business. External collaborators use invitations that can be rotated or removed.
Will it fix a slow home upload?
It cannot add bandwidth, but it uses what the link has far better than a single TCP stream does on a lossy or long path, and it resumes rather than restarts. The evaluation measures the difference on your links.
Technical evaluation
Test it on the link that makes your team wait.
Tell us where the people are and where the files need to go. We will help you time the real routes.