We attempt to keep track of the deployed footprint of the FileSender software, especially in the R&E community and have just updated the FileSender deployment map of the national R&E services. According to our data from April 2025, there are 48 countries in the world where the FileSender service is provided to the corresponding national R&E communities. All these countries are shown on the national R&E FileSender deployment maps below.
At the national level, in the vast majority of cases the FileSender service providers are the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). At the regional level, the FileSender service is offered by the EOSC EU Node platform in Europe, RedCLARA in Latin America, UbuntuNet Alliance in East and South Africa, and APAN in the Asia-Pacific region. At the institutional level, there are known FileSender services offered by universities in Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Japan and Spain, as well as by medical research organisations in Germany.
FileSender is open source software to deliver a service for easy and secure transfer of large files through a trusted intermediary, often the NREN. The sender has full control over who receives and can access the files (through authentication of users) and for which period of time – as it should be. With privacy, data security and digital sovereignty high on the agenda of both organizations and individuals, the FileSender open source web application provides a secure, trustworthy and transparent way for sharing large files.
We create the deployment map using MapChart, based on the list of the currently known FileSender installations available in the FileSender development documents on GitHub. Mainly listed here are NREN services provided to a national R&E community, but we are also aware of installations offered by regional RENs, universities, medical institutions, public sector organisations, governmental entities and private companies.
If you are running a FileSender installation, both within and outside the R&E community, not included in our list, please add it yourself to the known installations on GitHub using a pull-request, or let us know by sending an email directly to the FileSender Board.
