To that end, XipLink has named Mr. Steve Dunn as Director of Sales for Europe and Africa, to lead the company’s growth throughout the region. Dunn is a 25-year data and satellite communications networking veteran whose career has included various sales and technical roles. Over the last 15 years, Mr. Dunn has operated extensively in Europe and Africa and brings excellent knowledge of these territories. Prior to joining XipLink Inc. Dunn worked for CET Teleport, a German based Teleport and Service provider, providing VSAT services to customers in Europe and Africa. Before joining CET Teleport, Dunn was a Global Account Manager at iDirect Technologies where he oversaw the sales account management of three of iDirect’s strategic major Global Accounts. Previously, Dunn worked for a number of technology start-up companies and was successful in establishing their foothold in EMEA. He also worked as a Technical Manager for FORE Systems and in various technical roles in data communications VARs.
XipLink and Skyband have jointly announced the production rollout of optimized Internet services on the Skyband Star, Mesh and Hybrid networks. Recently, Skyband invested in XipLink’s Hub Optimization (XHO) technology to provide their Saudi customers with higher capacity web throughput with no additional space capacity cost for the operator or remote appliance cost for the end user. The result is a superior managed service with low customer turnover. In these networks, Skyband deployed redundant, high capacity 155 Mbps XA-30K appliances at their data center in Riyadh. By adding the XHO software option to the XipLink appliance, all remote customers on the network were able to obtain immediate optimization benefits for HTTP traffic. Additionally, for selected high-priority remote enterprise sites, Skyband leverages the hub investment by adding XipLink XA-2000 optimizers to customer premises locations thus allowing full two-way “bracketed” optimizations for all TCP traffic types. For smaller locations, such as small businesses or ATM locations, Skyband now uses the XA-Micro appliance for these remote locations due to a low price point and elimination of operationally intense software solutions on customer computing devices. XipLink company information link.
