Cloud Computing via Satellite with “Zero” Latency

Cloud computing is the convergence of many technologies and concepts combining virtualization, grid computing and service-oriented architecture. Operational, scalability and system design benefits drive cloud computing, but also environmental aspects as companies tend to implement eco-friendly data centres.

Satellite communications is sometimes the only wide area networking option for multi-national enterprises with branch offices or production facilities in remote areas. These enterprises need to embrace virtualization and cloud computing as part of their IT strategy and need to make sure that their branch offices have access to the same IT resources and experience the same software performance as at headquarters.

But many applications have high bandwidth requirements and tend to time out when latency is too high. Research has shown that more bandwidth is not automatically the remedy for this. Overcoming latency, even bringing down bandwidth consumption and maintaining reasonable costs can be challenging when running IT applications via satellite. Satellite communication networks are therefore usually not the first choice. ND SatCom‘s XWARP® is the right solution to overcome these challenges.

XWARP® is THE Enterprise and Branch Connectivity and/or Business Continuity solution when it comes to latency and business critical (online) applications via satellite. With XWARP® companies can deliver virtualized IT applications from headquarters to users anywhere and anytime - and minimize latency in satellite-based networks to almost zero for the end user.

XWARP® components

The XWARP® solution is a bundle of virtualization technology and satellite communication hardware:

1) Citrix® XenApp or Citrix® XenDeskop in the data centre for the virtualization and delivery of applications

 
2) Hardware package consisting of an ND SatCom SkyWAN® XWARP® satellite router for establishing wide area networks over satellite converged with a Zero Latency Engine for optimizing satellite WAN traffic and latency