Cloud
Computing
via
Satellite
– ND
SatCom
Launches
XWARP
8
April
2010
ND
SatCom,
will
introduce
XWARP
to
the
international
satellite
and
IT
community
during
SatCom
Africa
in Johannesburg (South Africa) from April 13-14, 2010.
XWARP
is
the
first
IT
solution
to
offer
geographically
distributed
companies
or
their
IT
service
providers
almost
latency-free,
virtualized
and
bandwidth-optimized
software
performance
at
the
user’s
front
end
–
especially
for
business
critical
applications
such
as
SAP,
Oracle,
SharePoint
and
MS
Office.
“Overcoming
latency
and
maintaining
reasonable
costs
are
typical
challenges
for
transmission
via
satellite.
Satellite
communications
networks
are
therefore
often
not
the
first
choice
for
backup
networks
and
enterprise
connectivity
for
business
critical
applications.
However,
XWARP™’s
combination
of
satellite
with
Citrix
virtualization
technology
now
enables,
for
the
first
time,
cost-efficient
Cloud
Computing
via
satellite.
With
XWARP™,
companies
can
provide
virtualized
applications
from
their
data
centers
to
users
anywhere
and
anytime,
and
minimize
latency
in
satellite-based
IT
networks
to
almost
zero
with
our
new
technology
enhancements”,
says
Christian
Adolph,
Director
of
Marketing
at
ND
SatCom.
XWARP’s
concept
is
based
on
the
use
of
Citrix
XenApp
in
the
data
center
and
ND
SatCom’s
SkyWAN,
the
leading
MF-TDMA
satellite
router,
and
can
either
be
implemented
in
an
existing
terrestrial
network
environment,
in
existing
Citrix
infrastructure
or
as a
completely
new
network
environment.
XWARP™
is
already
operated
by
two
South
African
reference
customers,
a
satellite
service
provider
and
an
ICT
service
provider.
ND
SatCom
has
more
than
30
years
experience
in
the
provision
of
satellite-based
infrastructure.
Every
fourth
MF-TDMA
satellite
router
worldwide
is
manufactured
at
ND
SatCom.
XWARP
is a
solution
consisting
of
an
advanced
satellite
router
enhanced
with
a
Zero
Latency
Engine,
additional
security
enhancements
to
ensure
efficient
SPSN
(Secure
Private
Satellite
Network)
connections
and
state-of-the-art
WAN
optimization
techniques.
XWARP™
is
the
only
solution
available
on
the
market
accelerating
and
optimizing
Citrix
delivered
applications
based
on
the ICA protocol via satellite. It is a prerequisite
to
use
Citrix
XenApp
to
abstract
the
user
interface
from
the
application
running
on
the
central
server.
Two
markets
can
benefit
from
XWARP:
Besides
conventional
satellite
service
providers,
the
solution
opens
new
and
unrivalled
business
opportunities
for
ICT,
SaaS
and
data
centre
providers
or
IT
system
integrators
since
the
solution
allows
them
to
finally
bring
satellite
as a
new,
cost-efficient,
secure
and
reliable
way
of
transmission
to
their
end
customers.
The
XWARP™
solution
is
particularly
attractive
for
the
provision
of
online
applications
in
undeveloped
areas
with
no
fiber
or
terrestrial
lines,
and
only
low
bandwidth
connectivity.
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