IPSTAR, a subsidiary of Thaicom and the leading provider of satellite broadband services in Asia-Pacific, has enhanced its managed service offering based on Expand Network’s WAN optimization technology.

The optimized service element will ensure fast, resilient and cost-effective satellite communications for IPSTAR’s corporate customers, placing remote users in virtual proximity of critical business applications to help improve business processes across distributed environments. According to Patompob Suwansiri, VP of Marketing at IPSTAR, Expand’s solution proved it could add significant value to IPSTAR’s already strong satellite service offering, he comments, “Expand’s superior WAN optimization technology helps maximize our broadband service offerings particularly for the banking and corporate sectors. The Expand solution enables IPSTAR to offer increased levels of quality of service by way of higher bandwidth throughput, reduced latency, and seamless delivery of business critical applications, ensuring enhanced user experience and productivity, for our customer’s employees.” Expand’s WAN optimization technology, with integrated Space Communication Protocol Standard (SCPS) technology, mitigates the effect of low bandwidth and high latency obstacles that can traditionally impede the speed and performance of applications over satellite links. Combining SCPS with compression, byte-level caching and layer 7 QoS, Expand’s technology is enabling IPSTAR to offer ‘virtual’ capacity as part of its existing service to customers.