Since its initial 1999 rollout in the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), more than 11,000 Expand Networks Accelerators have been deployed throughout the U.S. government and in all branches of the American Military. Expand Networks accelerators have been used in U.S. Joint Forces C-17 cargo aircraft for mobile, tactical mission as part of the J-EMPRS project and deployed in the U.S. Air Force airborne battle management, command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platform, Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS). Positioned as delivering the fullest capability set by Aberdeen Group in its recent ‘Optimizing Application Performance over the WAN 2009 Research Preview’ Expands’ complete WAN Optimization solution is being used by military services to increase throughput, accelerate application performance and interoperate with other communications nodes equipped with Space Communications Protocol Standard (SCPS- TP) Acceleration devices. These techniques ensure optimization is achieved even under traditionally challenging and extreme conditions such as on aircraft, mobile environments and remote and unattended locations.
Expand Networks continued technology innovations have long inspired confidence in the delivery of military communications tools. Howard Teicher, Vice President for Public Sector & Satellite Markets explains, “Operating enterprise-class applications over low bandwidth-high latency satellite links demands a dynamic, robust WAN Optimization capability to satisfy all network performance requirements. Expand’s flexible deployment options, including virtual appliances running on commodity hardware, and client software for individual workstations, provide the Air force with an efficient optimization capability for every battlespace environment.”