Expand Networks (News - Alert), specializing in WAN optimization techniques for branch office consolidation and virtualization, has announced that IPSTAR selected its WAN optimization technologies to enhance its managed services.

IPSTAR is a subsidiary of Thaicom and a provider of satellite broadband services in Asia-Pacific.

IPSTAR will benefit from the optimized service which will ensure delivery of resilient and cost-effective satellite communications to customers - bringing remote users virtually closer to critical business applications.

Patompob Suwansiri, VP of Marketing at IPSTAR said, “Expand’s superior WAN optimization technology helps maximize our broadband service offerings particularly for the banking and corporate sectors. The Expand solution enables IPSTAR to offer increased levels of quality of service by way of higher bandwidth throughput, reduced latency, and seamless delivery of business critical applications, ensuring enhanced user experience and productivity, for our customer’s employees.”

Expand’s WAN optimization technology along with Space Communication Protocol Standard (SCPS) technology reduces the effect of low bandwidth and high latency - which tends to affect the speed and performance of applications over satellite links.

Expand combines SCPS with compression, byte-level caching and layer 7 QoS to enable IPSTAR to offer ‘virtual’ capacity as a service to its customers.

IPSTAR’s TCP Accelerator premium service is based on Expand’s satellite optimization technology and can be added to a customer’s managed satellite offering.

Steve O’Brien, VP of Expand Networks APAC clarified that in the present economic scenario, most organizations demand more flexibility and IPSTAR’s customers will benefit from WAN optimization as a part of a managed service.

IPSTAR is a large commercial satellite owned by IPSTAR Company Ltd., launched to provide high-speed communications over an Internet Protocol platform, it facilitates two-way broadband Internet service for communities and businesses which do not have access to terrestrial line infrastructure - providing coverage in blind spot areas. The broadband satellite system allows rapid ground network deployment and flexible service locations enabling broadband solutions to the corporate and government sectors and the telecom and broadcasting industries.