In today's highly connected world, the ability to maintain reliable, high-speed internet connectivity is essential for businesses to operate efficiently. This is especially true for companies in the maritime and Oil & Gas industries, where ships and platforms must stay continuously connected to their headquarters and clients worldwide. However, providing dependable connectivity at sea can be a daunting task as vessels move through different regions with varying network infrastructures, weather conditions, and signal strengths.
To address these challenges, XipLink has launched a game-changing, cloud-based WAN (Wide Area Network) aggregation and optimization service called XipNet. By intelligently aggregating and steering traffic across multiple available connections, including satellite, cellular, and terrestrial networks, XipNet can ensure reliable, high-speed global connectivity. In addition, by combining unique bandwidth estimation, WAN optimization, and enterprise-grade QoS (Quality of Service) capabilities, XipNet maximizes the performance of mission-critical applications, even under adverse conditions.
Fixed monthly fees with no hub-side investments
XipNet is a cloud-based service that allows customers to aggregate, optimize, and tunnel traffic to user-selected regional POPs for a fixed monthly fee with no hub-side hardware investments. Service plans are based on aggregate data rates, with unlimited usage and no data caps.
Multiple Global POPs
With XipNet, vessels can operate globally while connecting to multiple regional PoPs (Points of Presence) located in strategic locations around the world. This means that users always enjoy the fastest network speeds with minimal latency, regardless of their location.
Up to 1Gbps aggregate throughput across up to 24 WAN links
XipNet's unique WAN aggregation technology combines multiple smaller links into a single large virtual WAN, delivering upload/download speeds that approach 95% of the combined bandwidth of all links. XipNet delivers speeds and reliability that dramatically exceeds the performance of the individual links, without wasting any bandwidth.
Bandwidth-Aware QoS and Traffic Steering
Satellite and wireless services like Starlink and 5G/LTE can provide cost-effective, high-speed connectivity at sea. Unfortunately, most of these services do not offer SLAs (Service Level Agreements) or CIRs (Committed Information Rates). As a result, the performance of these links can vary significantly.
XipNet's unique Dynamic Bandwidth Estimation feature continuously monitors the speed and latency of each link, allowing user-defined traffic steering and QoS rules to proactively re-route and prioritize mission-critical traffic as network conditions change.
Industry-Leading XipLink WAN Optimization and TCP Acceleration Technology
High-latency satellite links and unreliable wireless connections can lead to a frustrating user experience. XipLink has been the leader in satellite and wireless WAN optimization for almost two decades. By incorporating these core technologies in its new XipNet service, customers will experience faster page load times (up to 30%) and download speeds (up to 200%), even under challenging network conditions.
WAN Optimization and TCP Acceleration can be disabled if desired, as might be the case where all inks have low latency or very low packet loss.
Fast Ramp-up and Shaping of Video Streams
Most video streaming services use latency-based algorithms to estimate bandwidth availability and select the most appropriate video resolutions and bitrates. Unfortunately, the high latencies that are inherent to satellite communications can mislead these algorithms, resulting in low video quality, even when plenty of bandwidth is available. XipNet's Fast Video Ramp-up feature allows video streams to start faster and play at optimal quality, even in high-latency environments.
Conclusion
XipNet is a cutting-edge WAN optimization and aggregation service that provides reliable, high-speed internet access for vessels and other remote sites around the world. By combining multiple available connections and leveraging unique XipLink technologies, XipNet can deliver faster speeds while maximizing the performance of mission-critical applications. XipNet's cloud-based service model offers fixed monthly fees with no hub-side hardware investments or data caps.
Order information
XipNet Service will be available from Nov 2023 and can be ordered via selected XipLink partners. For more information please visit www.xiplink.com/contact-us