I see 2 benefits of AS2: Real time transactions vs polled or batch scheduled Non-repudiation
When we make a decision on what communication protocol (if we our partner gives us the choice), these are the 2 benefits that push us to AS2. Over time, we have standardized our communications around AS2 such that sFTP/FTPs is now the exception. -Thorsten ________________________________ From: Eckenfels. Bernd <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 6:54 AM Subject: [EDI-L] Re: AS2 versus S/FTP Hello Michael, > 2) SFTP has a serious of lack of tracking This totally depends on the product. In my case all communication protocols use the same tracking framework (within reasonable limites). > 3) SPEED – Experience shows that AS2 / HTTPS in general is much faster than a > slow SFTP port 22 connection a Ughh so late 1980s and 1990s I don’t see any particular difference between ftp/s, sftp or http/s in terms of throughput or latency. All three of them are bound to TCP speed, some symmetric cipher overhead and some protocol envelops. Actually the PKCS#7 Overhead of AS2 is bigger than for the other two. But generally you won't notice that unless you are a big Hub where you need to scale horizontally. SSL (hardware) acceleration (i.e. ftp/s or https) is a bit more readily available as ssh however. Greetings Bernd ... SEEBURGER AG Vorstand/Seeburger Executive Board: Sitz der Gesellschaft/Registered Office: Bernd Seeburger, Axel Haas, Michael Kleeberg Edisonstr. 1 D-75015 Bretten Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/Chairperson of the Seeburger Supervisory Board: Tel.: 07252 / 96 - 0 Dr. Franz Scherer Fax: 07252 / 96 - 2222 Internet: http://www.seeburger.de Registergericht/Commercial Register: e-mail: [email protected] HRB 240708 Mannheim Dieses E-Mail ist nur für den Empfänger bestimmt, an den es gerichtet ist und kann vertrauliches bzw. unter das Berufsgeheimnis fallendes Material enthalten. Jegliche darin enthaltene Ansicht oder Meinungsäußerung ist die des Autors und stellt nicht notwendigerweise die Ansicht oder Meinung der SEEBURGER AG dar. Sind Sie nicht der Empfänger, so haben Sie diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten und jegliche Verwendung, Veröffentlichung, Weiterleitung, Abschrift oder jeglicher Druck dieser E-Mail ist strengstens untersagt. Weder die SEEBURGER AG noch der Absender ( Eckenfels. Bernd ) übernehmen die Haftung für Viren; es obliegt Ihrer Verantwortung, die E-Mail und deren Anhänge auf Viren zu prüfen. The present email addresses only the addressee which it targets and may contain confidential material that may be protected by the professional secret. The opinions reflected herein are not necessarily the one of the SEEBURGER AG. If you are not the addressee, you have accidentally got this email and are not enabled to use, publish, forward, copy or print it in any way. Neither SEEBURGER AG , nor the sender (Eckenfels. Bernd) are liable for viruses, being your own responsibility to check this email and its attachments for this purpose. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
