Higher resolutions and quality standards, and large-scale collaborative workflows have stretched conventional file sharing architectures beyond their limits. Tuxera, working with key industry partners, can now deliver blistering performance using a highly tailored and performant SMB platform.

“Our Windows SMB Direct – RDMA – performance is insanely fast,” said Duncan Beattie, Market Development Manager at Tuxera. “We are now regularly seeing systems running at 40 GB/s, and in our labs, we have seen 250 GB/s to one workstation.  “Working closely with our partner ATTO Technology, our multi-channel implementation has seen MacOS throughput reach 8.6 GB/s - a 62% increase since NAB2025,” Beattie added. “These speeds are transformative for the post industry, and will deliver real, monetizable and creative values to media professionals.”

Tuxera Fusion SMB now delivers the best performance for connectivity between creative users and core storage where scalability is essential. When extreme performance is required, SMB Direct using RDMA can deliver up to 24.4 GB/s from a single 200 GbE connection, enabling workstations to access data at speeds approaching the limits of modern storage infrastructure. Tuxera is also addressing performance and connectivity for those that require NFS with Fusion NFS, particularly for rendering, VFX, and image scanning workloads.

NAB Show will see a technology preview of seamless integration between SMB and NFS, showcasing the speed, connectivity and throughput boosts users can expect from a modern enterprise-grade file sharing. Demonstrations will include high availability and failover for both protocols, SMB compression, and how QUIC can be integrated into workflows, delivering secure connections over wide area networks and the internet.