We aim to keep track of the deployed footprint of the FileSender software 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 2026, there are 54 countries in the world where the FileSender service is provided to the corresponding national R&E communities – an increase of 6 compared to April 2025. 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, and APAN in the Asia-Pacific region. At the institutional level, there are known FileSender services offered by universities in Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Serbia, Spain and USA, as well as by research organisations and libraries in France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Poland and United Kingdom.
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, government entities, municipalities, universities, colleges, medical institutions, private manufacturers, high-tech and IT companies.
The number of FileSender deployments continues to grow. In addition to the steady increase in national-level installations, we are seeing broader adoption of FileSender in non-NREN organizations and communities beyond R&E, supported by the rollout of the new FileSender 3.x user interface and growing digital sovereignty requirements.
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.
