Expand Networks, a leading provider of application acceleration solutions over the Wide Area Network (WAN), announced that the company has deployed its 10,000th unit to the U.S. government. The sale, made to the US Army, reinforces Expand Networks’ position as the leading provider of WAN Optimization appliances to US military and civilian agencies.

With the growing demand for remote access broadband services, satellite networks are becoming increasingly popular. In remote and rural areas, where there is little or no terrestrial communications infrastructure, satellite communications becomes the only viable option. Satellite links also provide a unique high-availability option as fail-over links to remote branches. Locations that would like to ensure connectivity in terrestrial network outages are utilizing satellite links to free themselves from those dependencies. Although the TCP/IP protocol is widely used to provide reliable data delivery it has challenges when running over wide area networks. When asked to run over satellite those challenges are exponentially increased. These stem from the inherent characteristics of satellite channels, such as large delays, increased error rates, and bandwidth asymmetry and availability.

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