Satellite Data Services Move Beyond the Maritime, Government, and Oil & Gas Industries
With new modem technologies pushing down hardware prices, satellite WANs are breaking out of the traditional military, mobile, and maritime industry segments they have been associated with over the last decade. In turn, this is opening up the market for TCP acceleration hardware vendors, whose products are essential to overcoming the network latency inherent in space-bound communications links.
As WAN Optimization suppliers help companies and carriers send more packets through the stratosphere, some of the questions facing geosynchronous satellite operators include:
- Will future technologies be defined by The Department of Defense or Silicon Valley?
- Will SSL change how Performance Enhancing Proxies are implemented?
- Can private jets bring more end users to the market than cruise liners have?
In addition to addressable market data on the industries connecting to the Internet through space, this report covers the major technologies used to accelerate satellite links, including XTP, SCPS, and all the TCP modifications. It also features analyses of the service providers and equipment vendors pushing the industry out of its maritime, oil & gas, and government confines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - The Technologies
1.1 The New Satellite Industry
1.2 Growing Together - WAN Acceleration and Broadband Satellite
1.3 DSL Services are Exhausting their Supply of Fiber-Fed Remotes
1.4 1980s Technologies for 2010 Applications
1.5 XTP
1.6 SCPS - The Space Industry's Approach
Chapter 2 - The Opportunities
2.1 Agriculture
2.2 Oil and Gas - Service Stations
2.3 Oil and Gas - SCADA
2.4 Maritime - Container Shipping
2.5 Maritime - Cruise Liners
2.6 Aviation
2.7 Remote Access
Chapter 3 - The Companies
3.1 Service Providers
3.2 Agristar Global Networks
3.3 Inmarsat
3.4 Schlumberger
3.5 Caprock & Oil Services
3.6 iPass
Equipment Suppliers
3.7 Xiplink
3.8 Packeteer
3.9 UDCast
3.10 Riverbed
3.11 Exinda
3.12 Encore
3.13 Silver Peak
3.14 Expand
Charts & Exhibits
Chart 1.1 - WAN Acceleration & Broadband Satellite
Chart 2.1 - Livestock & Produce Farms
Chart 2.2 - Gas Stations & Convenience Stores
Chart 2.3 - Natural Gas & Oil Pipeline RTUs
Chart 2.4 - Container Shipping Fleets
Chart 2.5 - Container Vessels/Cruise Liner Economics
Chart 2.6 - Cruise Fleets
Chart 2.7 - General Aviation .
Chart 3.1 - Agristar Load Limits/Max TCP/IP Connections