SatLink Challenges Tackled By Expand Networks

Expand Networks is addressing application performance issues over satellite links enabling global enterprises to reliably deliver all business applications. With increasingly dispersed offices in remote locations, satellite networks have become common practice to assist organizations in business agility. However, the design limitations of high latency and packet loss over satellite networks severely affect application performance resulting in delayed file transfer, slow response times and reduced remote user productivity. By deploying the Expand Compass platform with integrated Space Communications Protocol Standards (SCPS), all applications are accelerated over satellite networks guaranteeing workforce productivity and end user satisfaction. SCPS is a collection of standards-based TCP enhancements designed and developed by NASA to overcome the shortcomings of TCP in the stressed environment of satellite communications. Expand has truly integrated SCPS with the multiple technologies of the Expand Compass platform in a single platform, to mitigate against the negative impact of satellite and accelerate applications to remote users, guaranteeing improved performance and productivity. When deploying Compass, compression features increase network capacity on average by as much as 100-400 percent removing congestion and acceleration rates of 300-500 percent address protocol limitations, reducing chattiness and lessening latency. In addition, QoS services prioritize business over non-business and other web traffic to eradicate congestion for mission critical applications—Slough, United Kingdom