Expand Networks Help Optimize Global Satellite Services with Inmarsat
Enables WAN Optimization-as-a-Service Benefits for Service Providers and Customers
Roseland, NJ. - February 24th 2010 - Expand Networks www.expand.com, the leader in
optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, today announced its advanced
WAN Optimization solutions have been validated by Inmarsat, the world's leading provider of
global mobile satellite communications services. Building on a successful relationship as an Inmarsat
Connect Partner, this technology validation means Inmarsat’s global network of distribution
partners can now confidently utilize Expand’s WAN Optimization technology to enhance their
offerings by delivering and managing ‘virtual’ capacity as part of their service, assuring the user
experience for customers worldwide.
Combining Space Communications Protocol Standard technology (SCPS) with compression, bytelevel caching and layer 7 QoS, Expand mitigates the bandwidth and latency limitations that can
traditionally affect the speed and performance of applications over satellite links. This enables
service providers to pass on increased levels of quality of service and control, higher bandwidth
throughput, reduced latency, and seamless delivery of business critical applications to customers via
WAN Optimization-as-a-Service. Graeme Gordon, head of Inmarsat’s solutions team, said:
“The use of real-time and bandwidth intensive collaborative tools within virtualized and distributed
environments has created new challenges in controlling traffic over satellite links. During testing, we
found Expand to be highly effective at optimizing and controlling interactive traffic, such as Citrix
ICA and Microsoft RDP, which is a critical capability for our partners in meeting the needs of
today’s customers.”
By offering WAN Optimization as part of a managed service, customers can extend their
communications investment to optimize the productivity benefits at reduced CapEx costs.
WAN Optimization-as-a-Service takes away the complexity of managing technology enhancements,
upgrades and management costs for the customer and provides a controlled billing environment
where customers do not need to worry about the upfront costs of deploying a solution which offers
increased improvements in IT resource and efficiencies while reducing IT costs.
Adam Davison, corporate VP sales & marketing at Expand concludes, “Through our work with
Inmarsat, service providers will be able to optimize their offerings to add value and competitive
differentiation to their services with flexible and scalable products that enable them to maximize
their services for customers. Inmarsat has long been at the forefront of technology innovation, and
we are committed to working to support its global network of distribution partners to in maximizing
the communications environments of enterprise customers.”
-EndsAbout Expand Networks
Expand Networks is the pioneer and leader in the WAN Optimization market. 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 (www.expand.com) 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, (3,000).
Expand Networks, Accelerator, Expand Compass, ExpandView are trademarks of Expand Networks. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
For further information contact:
Elizabeth Miller
Jennifer Manning
Emily Wearworth
Connect2Communications – US Cohesive Communications – EMEA Kinetics – APAC
847-223-2653
+44 (0) 1291 626200
+61 (0) 2 9212 3848
elizabeth@connect2comm.com
expand@cohesive.uk.com
expand@kinetics.com.au