WAN is on at Clear Channel Satellite

ROSELAND, US: Clear Channel Satellite, a division of CC Media Holdings, Inc., and a player in satellite communications for both government and large enterprises, has enhanced its managed service offering based on Expand’s WAN optimization technology.

A press release tells that incorporating Expand Networks’ Virtual Accelerator for service scalability, the optimized service, XtremeSat Plus, is expected to enable Clear Channel Satellite to offer high-speed application delivery to both existing and new customers.

“Offered as a truly managed service, the XtremeSat Plus service takes away the complexity of managing technology enhancements, upgrades and management costs for the customer. The monthly or quarterly pricing structure means that customers do not need to worry about the upfront costs of deploying the solution which offers increased improvements in IT resource and efficiencies while reducing IT costs and therefore saving on CapEx.” The company says.

Neil Rickard, VP of Service Provider Strategy, Gartner, comments, “We have seen heightened interest amongst service providers for optimizing their offering to better manage the flow of traffic over satellite links, across all of The Americas.”

A major reason for Clear Channel Satellite choosing Expand Networks’ Virtual Accelerator (VACC) solution was its ability to be deployed within the existing virtualized IT infrastructure at the datacentre, running on Clear Channel Satellite’s existing server platforms, therefore eradicating additional IT cost and complexity. Furthermore, the VACC enables Clear Channel Satellite to easily scale its services on-demand by simply adding additional instances of its VACC onto the existing server platform at the datacenter, whilst offering flexible deployment options of physical or virtual appliances at the remote sites.

According to Monty Dent, Sales Manager at Clear Channel Satellite, the addition of Expand Networks’ high speed application delivery will address the specific needs of today’s performance driven, cost-conscious public and private organizations.

This WAN optimization technology, with integrated Space Communication Protocol Standard (SCPS) technology, mitigates the effect of low bandwidth and high latency obstacles that can 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 claims to accelerate critical productivity tools and business applications across ClearChannel’s satellite environments by over 700 per cent.