Military satellite operators

Satellite networks offer enormous advantages for military applications, with their ability to broadcast over a vast area. However, satellite communications for Internet connectivity presents reliability and performance challenges due to adverse environmental conditions, high error-rates, latency and TCP and application protocols that bottleneck satellite links. These elements create transmission congestion and delays that lead to application timeouts, unnecessary retransmissions, loss of synchronization and disconnections. Any one of these elements can put mission-critical military communications at risk.

There are two essential requirements for improving the reliability, performance and interoperability for military satellite communications. The first is a protocol suite that was developed to allow satellite communication over challenging environments. An SCPS implementation that has become the “defacto standard” transport protocol is SkipWare from Global Protocols, a protocol engineering firm specializing in the development and integration of bandwidth efficient, error-tolerant protocol solutions based on SCPS.

The second requirement is acceleration and optimization technologies from Stampede Technologies that provide performance improvements for satellite communications. Satellite communications require acceleration and optimization technologies to improve bandwidth utilization in order to squeeze greater amounts of traffic into the satellite link, and accelerate traffic going over the satellite link to deliver the applications more quickly to the users.

FX Series and SkipWare

Stampede Technologies has addressed this problem by partnering with Global Protocols and their SkipWare SCPS-TP. With Stampede’s best-in-class FX Series™ WAN optimization and acceleration appliances together with SkipWare, the industry-leading SCPS-TP, we are delivering a single-box, small-footprint solution that offers the industry’s best price/performance value for satellite link acceleration, optimization and Internet transport interoperability.

Stampede provides military satellite communications with the fastest, most flexible and cost-effective solution for increasing bandwidth capacity and application delivery throughput. Stampede helps squeeze more bandwidth out of satellite links, while improving throughput for mission-critical applications. We provide a robust set of optimization and acceleration technologies that work together to address network bandwidth constraints, high-latency-delays, traffic volumes, transport and application protocol inefficiencies, excessive content/object transfers, multiple application contentions, and others. The FX Series can save 75% or more of your bandwidth capacity, while increasing the performance experienced by end-users.

To learn more download the FX Series SCPS-TP datasheet (PDF).