  The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider provides a data challenge. The
amount of data recorded from the experiments and transported to hundreds of
sites will see a thirty fold increase in annual data volume. A systematic
approach to contrast the performance of different Third Party Copy(TPC)
transfer protocols arises. Two contenders, XRootD-HTTPS and the GridFTP are
evaluated in their performance for transferring files from one server to
an-other over 100Gbps interfaces. The benchmarking is done by scheduling pods
on the Pacific Research Platform Kubernetes cluster to ensure reproducible and
repeatable results. This opens a future pathway for network testing of any TPC
transfer protocol.
