Washington DC, Satellite 09, - Expand Networks www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, is demoing its unique ability to address application performance issues over satellite links by bringing users into virtual proximity of application and datacenter services on Booth 598 at Satellite 09 from March 25th-27th. Expand has also announced E&E Enterprises Global has joined its Partner Program, enabling the IT and Broadband Solutions Provider, to offer Expand Networks’ WAN Optimization technology to support end user customers’ satellite based projects.
With the rise of dispersed offices in remote locations, satellite networks have become common practice to assist organizations in business agility but have become an increasingly scarce commodity. In addition, 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 Networks platform with integrated Space Communications Protocol Standards (SCPS), all applications are accelerated over satellite networks, improving performance, guaranteeing user productivity and end user satisfaction while delivering a renewed ROI on the existing satellite infrastructure.
Many organizations around the world have already experienced the tremendous improvement in application performance and capabilities over satellite links when deploying Expand technology. An example is Antarctica NZ, the Crown Entity responsible for developing, managing and executing New Zealand Government interests in Antarctica.
“The clever combination of compression, acceleration and caching that goes on within the Expand platform has considerably reduced our latency issues, both within Citrix and with web browsing,” said Mike Mahon, IT administrator, Antarctica, NZ. “Despite a 600ms latency on our satellite link the data speeds we are experiencing are markedly improved, and are now really rather impressive for a 7,600 km round trip just to reach the internet connection. Saving $2,000 per month on 8Kb in effective additional bandwidth also gave us an ROI in just four months.”
When deploying Expand technology, compression features increase network capacity on average by as much as 100-400% removing congestion, and acceleration rates of 300-500% 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.
Based in Virginia, E&E offers managed and unmanaged services to build communication networks for government and commercial customers. With Expand included in the E&E portfolio, will add significant value to the business by making satellite links reliable for its customers, guarantying productive and profitable network performance.
“We want customers to receive reliable throughput and connectivity when they want it and where they want but this is often compromised in the stressed satellite environments,” said Bill Casiday, Chief Technology Officer, E&E Enterprises Global. “It is the complete integration between compression, byte level caching, acceleration, SCPS and QoS in a single appliance that puts the Expand ahead of all the competition and will enable our customers’ satellite links to be truly optimized.”
“Satellite networks provide essential business communication links for acutely dispersed organizations. However, in the satellite environment, high latency and packet loss lead to poor application performance and frustrated end users,” said Howard Teicher, Vice President, Public Sector & Satellite Markets, Expand Networks. “Expand’s integrated technology excels in satellite environments with a unique ability to optimize all applications, guaranteeing workforce productivity and a superior end user experience, in addition to renewing ROI on the existing infrastructure.
E&E is a highly experienced and focused company and we have already seen success in supporting organizations’ satellite communications.”
About Expand Networks
Expand Networks is the pioneer and leader in the WAN Optimization market and is positioned by Gartner Inc. in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2009[i]. Expand helps organizations simplify their IT infrastructure while delivering remote offices fast, reliable and secure access to networked applications. This results in improved user productivity and cost-effective IT management. Expand offers a multi-service integrated platform that ensures superior performance for any application over any network. From its headquarters in Roseland, NJ and its global locations, Expand Networks serves more than 3,500 enterprise and public sector customers in over 100 countries including: American Express, Bacardi USA, BMW, Continental Airlines, Carr America, Colgate, Elizabeth Arden, Reed Exhibitions, Target and United States Department of Defense with over 40,000 units deployed and over 2,000 MS Terminal Services and Citrix customers. Expand is the largest supplier of WAN Optimization products to US Government and Military agencies (greater than 10,000 units) and also has the most units deployed at a single corporate location, (4,500).
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