The model is bigger than the pipe
Architecture, engineering and construction projects generate files that outgrow email and shared drives quickly: federated BIM models in the tens of gigabytes, point clouds from laser and drone scans that run to terabytes, and visualisation renders for client sign-off. They move between a design office, a structural or MEP consultant, a visualisation studio and a site office, often across cities, and the site end usually has the worst connection.
Ordinary uploads run over TCP, which slows with every millisecond of round trip and stumbles at every lost packet. A point-cloud upload from a site cabin tends to fail overnight and start again in the morning. Posting a drive works until it is late or arrives corrupt.
Transfers that hold line rate and survive the site link
Boita moves data with an accelerated transfer engine over UDP with its own rate control. A transfer climbs to your line rate and holds it whatever the distance, and large jobs run as parallel sessions sized to your plan. In the desktop app, when the site connection drops, the transfer waits and resumes where it stopped, and completed files are never re-sent; a browser upload starts again.
Install the desktop app on the site laptop and point a watch folder at the folder where scans are offloaded. New files upload as they appear, once they have stopped changing, with the window closed. State is kept locally, so a reboot does not re-upload the week. Allowed hours per folder and a bandwidth window enforced by the transfer server keep the site connection free during the day.
A 50 GB model issue goes out from the office on Pro, over a 1 Gbps line, in about fifteen minutes, plan-limited at 450 Mbps. A 200 GB week of scans from a site cabin on a 100 Mbps line takes about four and a half hours, line-limited; the calculator on the home page models your own line.
Issue to consultants, receive from surveyors
Send a model issue or a render set as a share link with an expiry, an optional password and a download limit. The consultant opens a page, sees the files and sizes and downloads without an account; the sender dashboard shows who has collected what.
Receiving scans from a survey subcontractor works in reverse through an upload portal: a request link into a folder you choose, each delivery in its own dated inbox folder with the sender’s name attached, and an email to both sides.
Verified, organised and priced for a practice
Every file shows the checksum the server recorded on arrival, so a truncated point cloud is caught at ingest rather than when the model fails to open. Deleted files sit in the trash for a recovery window, and when an upload replaces a file the previous copy is kept as a version. Folder permissions per member or group (Scale and above) mean a consultant sees only their discipline’s folder.
Plans are flat monthly amounts sized by storage, retention and seats, with no per-GB transfer fees and free downloads, so a heavy scanning month does not become a surprise bill. Indian practices are billed in INR with GST invoices; others see the same plans in their own currency.
- Line-rate transfers from site connections; desktop-app resume
- Watch folders on the site laptop; allowed hours and bandwidth windows
- Share links and upload portals with no accounts for consultants
- Checksums on every file; trash with a recovery window; versions
- Folder permissions per member or group (Scale and above)