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title: "What is Bobsled Transfers?"
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# What is Bobsled Transfers?

A **Bobsled Transfer** is a direct data pipeline from your source to your destination—no persistent copy in between.

Think of it as Bobsled acting as the courier: we pick up data from where it lives, convert it into the right format for your destination, and drop it off—quickly, reliably, and on your schedule.

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## How it works

1. **Connect Sources**: Providers give Bobsled read-only access to the data they wish to transfer to their consumer organizations and set up a data source in Bobsled to specify the data's location.
2. **Create Share:** Providers create a data share in Bobsled, selecting a destination, authorizing access, and defining the following configurations:
  - Data loading patterns (e.g. append or overwrite)
  - Query optimization settings (e.g. clustering)
3. **Transfer Data:** Bobsled transfers the data to the target platform and region specified in the share configuration. Consumers can securely access the shared data from the designated destination.

![Share domain model](https://cdn.document360.io/87a415ff-4d6a-4c0c-adbb-26c563a2d9a8/Images/Documentation/model(3).png)

Learn more how to get started with Bobsled Transfers in our [quickstart](/v2/docs/quick-start) guide.