OneAccess and The
Auriga Network Create New Market Segment for UK Enterprise
Satellite VPN Managed Services
20 February 2014
OneAccess and The Auriga Network announced the availability
of a game-changing business-grade satellite VPN managed
service which, for the first time, will enable enterprise
customers in the UK to establish a subscription-based,
high-speed, fully encrypted VPN via Eutelsat’s
next-generation KA-SAT satellite.
The managed service will enable
distributed organisations with sites beyond the range of
terrestrial networks to take advantage of KA-SAT’s high
throughput satellite transmission speeds
together with the most advanced uses of an ultra-fast
broadband VPN, including the rapid implementation of
integrated backup and traffic offload solutions in highly
secure environments. The service, which provides speeds of
up to 20Mbps download and 6Mbps upload, enables the delivery
of a variety of traffic acceleration, IP routing and IP-VPN
secure transport services and has been specifically designed
to meet the needs of organisations that require centralised
control over multiple, geographically dispersed sites.
“There is considerable demand for
satellite VPN connectivity across a variety of UK sectors,”
comments Stephen Flood, CEO, Auriga Networks. “We are seeing
particular interest from energy and utility companies, many
of which have a business critical need to securely connect
hard-to-reach sites to their central infrastructure. As a
result of OneAccess’ innovation in routing technologies, we
are now able to offer the benefits of a KA-band VPN via a
managed service, reducing the cost of deployment for
customers. Our first major customer implementation is now in
its final stages and we look forward to making further
announcements in 2014.”
In March, Eutelsat
and OneAccess introduced an innovative satellite router
solution using next generation KA-SAT capabilities to
deliver DSL-like satellite VPN services to the enterprise
market at DSL-like prices. Auriga’s managed service
leverages this technology to manage the consolidation,
encryption and routing of data passing from the customer’s
terrestrial private network across the satellite VPN.
In addition to
bringing KA-SAT connectivity to the UK enterprise VPN
market, the OneAccess and Auriga managed service also
significantly lowers the typical cost of deployment for a
solution of this kind. Until now, an enterprise satellite
VPN solution has required the use of a dedicated IP access
concentrator to manage the data encryption specified by VPN
standards. In contrast, the OneAccess and Auriga service
manages the encryption for multiple satellite links via a
small number of concentrators housed in a single
London-based telehouse. This model significantly reduces
both the capex required to provision a new satellite VPN and
the opex needed to maintain the system; cost efficiencies
which Auriga passes on to its customers via the
subscription-based managed service model.
“Innovation runs
through every stage of this solution,” comments Bertrand
Meis, CEO, OneAccess. “Eutelsat’s revolutionary spot-beam
satellite has vastly increased per customer connectivity
speeds and available bandwidth. OneAccess’ R&D has developed
a multi-service access solution capable of delivering these
gains to the enterprise sector, which has transformed the
market across Europe. Finally, Auriga’s smart deployment of
this technology has resulted in an infrastructure capable of
delivering satellite VPN connectivity as a managed service,
lowering the cost of deployment and putting the solution
within easy reach of businesses all over the UK. I am
delighted by the progress we have made together in the last
twelve months and look forward to our continued successes in
2014.”
