Expand Networks, the largest supplier of WAN Optimization products to US Government and Military agencies, today announced that its market-leading WAN Optimization technology is supporting the PEOC3T and the United States Army to improve the performance of critical applications and communications over low bandwidth – high latency satellite links. Expand Networks Accelerators are enabling fast and reliable connectivity for mobile warfighter units in Operation Enduring Freedom and remote executive travel teams.
Expand’s WAN optimization technology, with integrated Space Communication Protocol Standard (SCPS), mitigates the effect of low bandwidth and high latency obstacles that traditionally impede the speed and performance of applications over satellite links. Combining SCPS with compression, byte-level caching and layer 7 QoS, Expand’s technology enables available bandwidth and real-time interactive TCP traffic to be maximized, extending ‘virtual capacity’ to military personnel. Expand Networks products are presently used in the Tactical Warfighter Information Network (WIN-T) Increment 2 system to help provide warfighters and brigade teams with maximum communications efficiency on the move.
Howard Teicher, Expand Network’s VP for Public Sector & Satellite Markets concludes, “The Expand solution enables military operations to offer increased levels of quality of service by way of higher bandwidth throughput, reduced latency, and seamless delivery of critical applications, ensuring an enhanced user experience and productivity, across even the most remote military deployments.”
Since its initial rollout in the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in 1999, more than 11,000 Expand Networks Accelerators have been deployed throughout the US government and in all branches of the American Military. Battle-proven in Afghanistan and Iraq with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, Expand Accelerators are also deployed in U.S. government enterprise networks, such as the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
