Optimizing Satellite WANs for Armed Forces in Afghanistan

Global telecom service providers that rely on satellite wide area networks (WANs) face challenges from high-latency and packet errors.  Telecommunications provider Carrier to Carrier Telecom B.V. (C2C) faced these problems while providing satellite connectivity services to various armed forces in Afghanistan.  C2C found the solution with Silver Peak virtual WAN optimizers, and now benefits from [...]

VX-Xpress: Promoting World Connectedness

In our last two posts, we have accomplished the improbable; we demonstrated that teens and adults can agree on something — that Silver Peak VX-Xpress can significantly improve network performance. This week, I want to build on the “Cool Deployment” post from last week, which illustrated how VX-Xpress improved performance between networks in Texas and [...]

Ship Ahoy! Carnival Australia Optimizes Satellite WAN

It should come as no surprise that satellite WAN connections are plagued with bandwidth limitations, latency and packet loss. The physical distance that signals travel from Earth to the orbiting satellite and back again is enough to negatively impact any application and network performance. Plus, performance is further complicated by packet loss, which, in the [...]