Skyband
Enhances
Services
with
XipLink
Hub
Optimizations
February
27,
2011
XipLink
and
Skyband
are
proud
to
jointly
announce
the
production
rollout
of
optimized
Internet
services
on
the
Skyband
Star,
Mesh
and
Hybrid
networks.
Recently,
Skyband
invested
in
XipLink’s
Hub
Optimization
(XHO)
technology
to
provide
their
Saudi
customers
with
higher
capacity
web
throughput
with
no
additional
space
capacity
cost
for
the
operator
or
remote
appliance
cost
for
the
end
user.
The
result
is a
superior
managed
service
with
low
customer
turnover.
In
these
networks,
Skyband
deployed
redundant,
high
capacity
155
Mbps
XA-30K
appliances
at
their
data
center
in
Riyadh.
By
adding
the
XHO
software
option
to
the
XipLink
appliance,
all
remote
customers
on
the
network
were
able
to
obtain
immediate
optimization
benefits
for
HTTP
traffic.
Additionally,
for
selected
high-priority
remote
enterprise
sites,
Skyband
leverages
the
hub
investment
by
adding
XipLink
XA-2000
optimizers
to
customer
premises
locations
thus
allowing
full
two-way
“bracketed”
optimizations
for
all
TCP
traffic
types.
For
smaller
locations,
such
as
small
businesses
or
ATM
locations,
Skyband
now
utilizes
the
XA-Micro
appliance
for
these
remote
locations
due
to a
low
price
point
and
elimination
of
operationally
intense
software
solutions
on
customer
computing
devices.
Osman
Oueida,
Executive
Vice
President
for
Skyband,
commented
“today’s
satellite
network
operators
are
under
significant
pressure
to
deliver
more
throughput
to
the
end
customer
while
also
reducing
the
cost
per
bit
internally.
The
XipLink
products
solve
this
for
us
due
to
effective
capacity
increases
at a
low
capital
cost.
The
network
engineering
teams
at
both
Skyband
and
XipLink
have
been
working
together
on
these
customer
rollouts
over
the
last
two
years
and
the
support
has
been
tremendous.”
“Skyband
has
established
a
leadership
position
in
the
Saudi
Arabian
market
by
choosing
the
best
technology
for
the
right
applications
and
delivering
these
in a
managed
service
bundle,”
says
Sasmith
Reddi,
VP
of
Asia
and
Middle
East
at
XipLink.
“For
this
particular
project,
the
XipLink
XHO
optimizations
provide
all
remote
users
with
significant
throughput
gains
on
web
traffic,
while
allowing
for
higher
capacity
sites
to
drop
in
remote
appliances
when
two-way
optimizations
are
required.
This
flexibility
lets
the
service
provider
deliver
the
best
possible
service
within
capital
cost
constraints.”
