Memotec - Redefining Network Efficiency

The NetPerformer SDM-9220 is a voice and data router designed specifically for low-bandwidth, small office environments to digitally converge voice and data traffic over WAN infrastructures. It supports up to 8 digital or analog voice channels per gateway and also supports VoIP over SIP protocols and a wide range of voice codecs, providing interoperability for multi-vendor and mixed public/private networks, enabling enterprises to build bandwidth-efficient private enterprise networks that permit interconnection with voice service providers for off-net calls.

The NetPerformer SDM-9220 uses award-winning, field-proven digital convergence technology to compress voice and data technology over efficient packet-based networks, effectively integrating disparate PBX systems and providing a uniform dialing plan and services throughout your enterprise.

• Deliver superior voice and data QoS
• Support up to 8 analog or BRI telephony channels
• Maximize bandwidth resources
• Enable converged satellite access
• Reduce network and equipment complexity
• Leverage legacy technology investments
• Ensure a cost-effective migration path to VoIP

The NetPerformer SDM-9220 PBX and PSTN telephony interfaces include analog FXS, FXO, E&M and digital ISDN/QSIG BRI, with optional SIP support for VoIP phones and PBXs. This unequaled flexibility enables you to leverage your legacy technology investments towards dramatically lower infrastructure costs without creating new management headaches.

The NetPerformer SDM-9220, like all NetPerformer voice and data routers, utilize Memotec’s patent-pending, award-winning PowerCell prioritization and voice/data compression technology, enabling superior voice quality with minimal bandwidth utilization by providing high-compression voice and data transport over various WAN infrastructures, including leased and switched lines, ISDN BRI and PRI, Frame Relay, and IP/PPP and IP/Ethernet circuits. Additionally, PowerCell QoS is combined with IP Precedence TOS bit and 802.1p/q support to provide end-to-end Quality of Service for both mission-critical voice and data applications. Additionally, you can define up to eight classes of service with 16 different levels of prioritization to ensure that your mission-critical applications always get the bandwidth they need.

Utilizing Memotec's ActView® 3000, the SDM-9220 is easy to configure and manage, integrating with multi-vendor network management systems via SNMP-compliant MIBs and a user-friendly graphical interface. ActView includes SDM-9220 element management, and joins with HP OpenView® NNM for Windows or Unix (Sun Solaris) platforms for simple, effective control and an expanded vision of your network.

Because inbound voice traffic from local and long distance carriers is still migrating to packet-based communications, enterprises migrating to a converged network continue to require access to the circuit-switched PSTN. The SDM-9220 provides a common channelized connection to both the PSTN and to packet-based networks, ensuring the ongoing flexibility of your infrastructure and lowering your communication costs even further by reducing the number of expensive telecommunications links and associated hardware.

The NetPerformer SDM-9230 is a voice and data router designed specifically for medium-sized distributed enterprise networks to digitally converge voice and data traffic over WAN infrastructures. It supports up to 12 analog or 120 digital telephony channels per gateway and also supports VoIP over SIP protocols and a wide range of voice codecs, providing interoperability for multi-vendor and mixed public/private networks, enabling enterprises to build bandwidth-efficient private enterprise networks that permit interconnection with voice service providers for off-net calls.

The NetPerformer SDM-9230 uses award-winning, field-proven digital convergence technology to compress voice and data technology over efficient packet-based networks, effectively integrating disparate PBX systems and providing a uniform dialing plan and services throughout your enterprise.

• Deliver superior voice and data QoS
• Support up to 12 analog or 120 digital telephony channels
• Maximize bandwidth resources
• Reduce network and equipment complexity
• Enable converged satellite access
• Leverage legacy technology investments
• Ensure a cost-effective migration path to VoIP

The NetPerformer SDM-9230 PBX and PSTN telephony interfaces include analog FXS, FXO, E&M and digital ISDN/QSIG BRI, with optional SIP support for VoIP phones and PBXs. This unequaled flexibility enables you to leverage your legacy technology investments towards dramatically lower infrastructure costs without creating new management headaches.

The NetPerformer SDM-9230, like all NetPerformer voice and data routers, utilize Memotec's patent-pending, award-winning PowerCell prioritization and voice/data compression technology, enabling superior voice quality with minimal bandwidth utilization by providing high-compression voice and data transport over various WAN infrastructures, including leased and switched lines, ISDN BRI and PRI, Frame Relay, and IP/PPP and IP/Ethernet circuits. Additionally, PowerCell QoS is combined with IP Precedence TOS bit and 802.1p/q support to provide end-to-end Quality of Service for both mission-critical voice and data applications. Additionally, you can define up to eight classes of service with 16 different levels of prioritization to ensure that your mission-critical applications always get the bandwidth they need.

Utilizing Memotec's ACTview^® 3000, the SDM-9230 is easy to configure and manage, integrating with multi-vendor network management systems via SNMP-compliant MIBs and a user-friendly graphical interface. ACTview 3000 includes SDM-9230 element management, and joins with HP OpenView^® NNM for Windows or Unix (Sun Solaris) platforms for simple, effective control and an expanded vision of your network.

Because inbound voice traffic from local and long distance carriers is still migrating to packet-based communications, enterprises migrating to a converged network continue to require access to the circuit-switched PSTN. The SDM-9230 provides a common channelized connection to both the PSTN and to packet-based networks, ensuring the ongoing flexibility of your infrastructure and lowering your communication costs even further by reducing the number of expensive telecommunications links and associated hardware.

Memotec's NetPerformer SDM-8400 enables incremental scalability of existing NetPerformer multifunctional routers by adding serial port capacity.

• Support four or eight serial ports
• Use incremental scalability of satellite and broadband networks
• Integrate 10/100BaseT Ethernet ports
• Support flexible network configurations
• Offer automatic dial backup in case of WAN link failure
• Include high performance quality of service functionality
• Utilize ACTview 3000 for network management

Memotec's NetPerformer SDM-8400 enables enterprises and service providers to incrementally scale their network infrastructures as requirements for additional serial ports increase. In a satellite network, for example, service providers can start small with a NetPerformer SDM-9220 or SDM-9230 and up to three modems attached to the serial ports on these units, and then add modems for additional sites by simply implementing NetPerformer SDM-8400s. Since the NetPerformer SDM-8400s are IP devices with multiple connectivity options, they easily integrate into any network.

The NetPerformer SDM-8400 is easy to implement because it can support most standard network configurations such as fully meshed, hierarchical, star, point-to-point, or satellite point-to-point or point-to-multipoint. In addition, the device can handle framed serial traffic or support transparent circuit emulation and then send the resulting data over these packet based networks. As a result, time to market with expanded services that rely on additional serial devices is minimizedand so are overhead costs and overall network impacts.

The NetPerformer SDM-8400 utilizes Memotec's patent-pending, award-winning PowerCell® prioritization and data compression technology to enable superior quality of service with minimal bandwidth utilization, providing high compression data transport over a variety of WAN infrastructures, including leased and switched lines, Frame Relay, IP/PPP, and IP/Ethernet circuits. PowerCell allows you to define up to eight classes of service with 16 different levels of prioritization to ensure that your mission critical applications always get the bandwidth they need. In addition, PowerCell is combined with IP Precedence TOS bit and 802.1p/q support to provide crucial end-to-end Quality of Service for both mission-critical voice and data applications.

The Opportunity

Network Products Leasing of Lafayette, Louisiana installs and maintains wireless telecommunications network solutions throughout the U.S. Gulf Coast region. Many of its customers are drilling companies that operate offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, where they face special challenges maintaining reliable and cost-effective voice and data communications.

Sam Romero, President and founder of Network Products Leasing, has been working with the offshore drilling industry for nearly two decades. "The offshore environment is challenging enough just because of the physical conditions," he said. "Equipment can easily get knocked around on an oil rig, and saltwater is hard on anything electronic. But the big factor is cost. It's expensive to operate a network out there."

Although earlier microwave systems have been overtaken by cheaper satellite-based solutions, bandwidth is still costly, as is leasing space for subsidiary networking equipment on platforms throughout the Gulf. In addition, the cost of servicing equipment installations is elevated by the expense of helicopter transportation from shore as well as, security concerns that may limit access to platforms, requiring maximum flexibility from solutions providers when scheduling maintenance visits.

"To win business-and to keep it-you have to offer a competitive combination of low cost, fast turnaround, absolute reliability, and great service," said Romero. "You have to use any advantage you can find."

The Solution

Network Product Leasing has been selling a Memotec NetPerformer-based solution that enables offshore platforms to upgrade their existing communications infrastructure to an efficient, satellite-based VoIP system that provides high-quality voice and data transmissions. NetPerformer offers superior data compression that minimizes the amount of bandwidth required on the satellite and therefore keeps costs relatively low. The end result is a cost effective solution that handles both voice and Internet traffic. It also transmits sonar data and other information gathered at the oil rig to an onshore location via Frame Relay. "NetPerformer has had excellent technology from the beginning, and it's still the easiest IP voice and data router to implement because it doesn't require additional hardware or external components," said Romero. "It's also one of the few to offer compressed calling over a dial-up modem connection, and our customers want that flexibility."

In a typical case, NetPerformer is replacing equipment from Vanguard. NetPerformer can be used to create a nearly endless variety of system configurations, while the Vanguard product is limited to two or three possibilities. According to Romero, NetPerformer is more scalable, and it's also more readily available, a critical factor for customers who expect quick turnaround on system installations. "We can get product delivery much faster from Memotec than from any other manufacturer," said Romero. "For us, that's often the difference between making a sale and losing one."

The Results

Network Products Leasing can lower its oil-rig customers' communications costs by a substantial margin. "The data compression technology that NetPerformer employs has helped to drive down the monthly cost of satellite bandwidth for a typical rig by well over 50% in the past decade," said Romero.

The company's customers have also, in effect, gained Web access bandwidth by eliminating unauthorized Internet usage with NetSpective. One major benefit of this for Network Products Leasing has been a sharp reduction in virus-related service calls. "Anytime we have to visit an offshore platform to remove a virus from a system, it's an expensive proposition," said Romero. "Since we began including NetSpective in our installations, we've seen the number of virus penetration attempts on our systems drop from as many as 75 a day to zero." Network Products Leasing has also discovered a new NetPerformer market opportunity with significant growth potential: providing "backhaul" services for remote cell sites through a process that streamlines and packetizes cellular traffic then connects it to a data channel that controls switching. The company can reduce a customer's cell phone expenses by as much as 40%.

Romero expects to see his company's revenue grow by 300% in the year ahead, with much of the increase coming from NetPerformer-based solutions. "It's a great product-flexible, scalable, reliable, easy to work with-and the service from Memotec has been excellent," he said. "It's technology you can grow on."

The Opportunity

Sonema is a Monaco-based telecommunications services provider that specializes in delivering fully integrated voice and data networking solutions to enterprise customers and carriers in developing nations. The company has nearly 300 installations in more than 30 countries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, reflecting its commitment to bringing leading-edge communications technology to regions that have been underserved in the past. Sonema's solutions have been instrumental not only in establishing modern services in remote markets but also in spurring economic development in some of the world's most impoverished regions.

In 2001, Sonema executives learned from contacts at Western Union that many of Western Union's commercial bank customers in Africa were constrained in their efforts to expand their money transfer revenues by the poor quality of service provided by local carriers. Many of these banks' retail customers regularly send funds to relatives abroad, but the banks' ability to provide fast, reliable, and profitable execution of the transfers was often stymied by their dependence on expensive but unreliable dial-up connections to a local Point of Presence. It was not unusual for an African bank to experience a 90% call connection failure rate for international voice calls.

For connections to Western Union, the banks typically employed a dialup service provided by a service provider other than the incumbent carrier. The connection had to go through an incumbent carrier just to establish the local call to the POP. If a bank representative needed to speak with a Western Union agent to discuss an issue that could not be resolved over the dial-up data connection, the rep had to use the PSTN, making a costly long distance call that would often require several attempts before a connection could be established.

Recognizing an opportunity to expand their African customer base, Sonema representatives began to approach Western Union's bank customers with a solution already in mind.

The Solution

Sonema quickly realized it could offer a high-quality, NetPerformer-based VSAT solution to banks throughout Africa that would free the banks almost entirely from their dependence on local service.

Sonema was thoroughly familiar with the sophisticated capabilities and reliability of the NetPerformer product line from previous installations. "We've been working with NetPerformer-based solutions for years, and we have always been impressed with the technology and the support that backs it," said Yves Dollo, director of sales at Sonema.

NetPerformer combines the functionality of a data router, data compression, traffic shaping, and a voice gateway in a single device. Because it offers the highest possible quality of service algorithms for compressing voice and data traffic over a common WAN infrastructure, NetPerformer can optimize bandwidth utilization and reduce telephony costs by bypassing the PSTN on calls between disparate enterprise locations.

The solution offered to African banks by Sonema typically includes a NetPerformer hub at the bank's headquarters location, a NetPerformer unit at each bank branch, and remote VSAT stations interconnected, in some cases, by wireless WAN. The Memotec SkyPerformer option provides connectivity with satellite bandwidth leased by Sonema. Calls are linked via satellite to a hub in Monaco or directly from branch to branch. Sonema also established a leased line connection between Monaco and Paris that provides high-quality, low-cost voice and data transmission to Europe and beyond.

Results

Sonema's solution proved to be a relatively easy sell because of its obvious and immediate advantages for the banks. For approximately the same monthly cost of the local dial-up service to access Western Union, a typical bank could have voice and data connectivity with immediate response times. As a result, the bank could serve more than twice as many customers as before, increase its revenue from Western Union services, and nearly eliminate customer service complaints.

Sonema's African bank customers have also benefited from a substantial reduction in their local access charges as a result of the NetPerformer-based solution's toll bypass capabilities. Western Union has also cut its toll charges-an expense it shared with the banks-by installing a NetPerformer unit in its Paris hub.

In addition-and at no extra cost-bank branches acquired Internet connectivity and inter-branch voice and data networking, making possible a wide range of new communications and control applications that have boosted internal productivity. And because of NetPerformer's ease of installation and maintenance, the demands on Sonema's service and support group have been minimal. Most system troubleshooting can be handled remotely, and Memotec technicians are always available to Sonema and its customers for expert assistance.

SkyPerformer's SCPC satellite connection provides 100% dedicated bandwidth to each customer. Sonema has capitalized on this by creating an online service that enables each bank's support team to monitor their network utilization.

By lowering their total cost of ownership, the banks have typically achieved payback within six months while substantially increasing the quality of their customer service.

"NetPerformer provides excellent voice quality, it's highly reliable, and it's easy to operate and maintain," said Yves Dollo. "All of our banking customers have been happy with NetPerformer's performance and especially with the low total cost of ownership they experience because of their toll bypass savings and productivity improvements. The banks are also adding revenue and building customer loyalty with the service improvements they've been able to deliver in their local markets."

By early 2005, Sonema had sold and deployed dozens of NetPerformer-based VSAT networks throughout the African continent, with seven more planned for installation by the end of the year. Awareness of the solution's financial and operating benefits has spread rapidly throughout the African banking industry and into other sectors of African commerce as well. Sonema sees no shortage of future clients anxious to take advantage of the technology. According to Dollo, "We're swamped with orders from new customers."

To learn more about Sonema, please visit www.sonema.com.

Note: The Sonema Web site is in French. For an English translation, go to http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en and type in "www.sonema.com" under the Translate a Web Page box.

The Opportunity

Parker Drilling Company has provided drilling services to the energy industry in every region of the world since its founding more than 70 years ago. The company operates 31 land-based drilling rigs in 13 countries from the U.S. to Papua New Guinea, and 25 offshore barge rigs in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the Caspian Sea, Nigeria, and Mexico. Parker Drilling also provides rig management services, often to oil and gas companies that own rigs but prefer to outsource the operation of their drilling platforms. On these rigs, the company manages such critical functions as engineering, human resources, training, purchasing, logistics, and maintenance, as well as health, safety, and environmental programs.

Before the advent of IP telephony, the company relied on mostly radio (voice) communications to maintain contact with offshore drilling platforms and with land-based rigs in remote areas where traditional telephone service is not available. Radio communications via voice was an inefficient medium as it did not allow for transmitting geological and other data from the rigs to onshore base stations, from where it would be phoned, faxed, or sent via the Internet to Parker Drilling's Houston headquarters. In addition, radio offered no security for the transmission of such sensitive information as planned bids on future drilling contracts.

In 2001, the company decided to upgrade to satellite-based IP technology for voice and data transmissions to and from its offshore platforms and its land-based drilling rigs in isolated areas. The first step was to identify the solution that offered the best combination of quality, reliability, security, service, and cost-effectiveness.

The Solution

Charles Cox, Telecommunications Manager for Parker Drilling, knew what he was looking for from the outset. "Everybody in our industry was going to VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) satellite communications technology," said Cox. "The U.S. government had been using VSAT for years, and it offered the perfect solution for our offshore and remote locations. Our goal was to establish a more reliable, cost-effective, and robust communications link with our worldwide operation using VSAT as the vehicle. There's plenty of equipment on the market that will interface with VSAT, but satellite bandwidth is an expensive commodity, so we wanted to make sure we created a network with selected hardware that would be as efficient as possible."

After a thorough review of the available options, Parker Drilling's choice was the Memotec NetPerformer voice and data router with SkyPerformer®, a software option that enables NetPerformer to use a single satellite frequency to broadcast to multiple remote locations. "NetPerformer was the clear winner in our analysis because of its data compression performance," said Cox. "In addition, NetPerformer is extremely efficient in minimizing the amount of satellite bandwidth required to support a typical rig's voice and broadband Internet usage. On a typical offshore rig, they can use two voice calls, email, and Internet access simultaneously on just 100kHz (64Kbps). That translates directly into substantial cost savings while still providing the communications to meet safety and operational requirements. Further, the quality of voice transmissions is excellent despite the limited bandwidth."

Security was another critical decision criterion, according to Cox. Drilling companies submit bids for future contracts, and all transmissions that contain information about bids or any other confidential financial information have to be protected against electronic eavesdropping. In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 raised the security stakes by requiring publicly held companies in the U.S. to ensure the confidentiality and control of sensitive financial data. "Voice security is now a big issue" said Cox. "Sarbanes-Oxley audit results are important to investors and, aside from that, we have to take steps that will deter anyone from gaining unauthorized access to our wireless communications. Fortunately, NetPerformer provides that extra bit of security that we need. Industrial espionage is alive and well in the energy business, so we must take the necessary steps to protect our network, whether it is voice or data. I take it as a compliment when a T-1 circuit provider tells me while troubleshooting a point-to-point landline with NetPerformers on each end that they're unable to tell if there is a good connection because their test equipment doesn't recognize the data."

The Results

Given the current cost of satellite bandwidth and the relatively less efficient data compression of competing routers, Parker Drilling is able to save several hundred dollars per month on each rig where NetPerformer has been installed. "When you multiply that by the number of our rigs that now rely on NetPerformer for their communications, it amounts to a substantial sum over time," said Cox. The company has saved even more by locating the VSAT server in its Houston office where it can easily be maintained by the existing IT staff.

Service has also been consistently up to par. "I have nothing but good things to say about the support Parker Drilling gets from Memotec. I could not ask for better," Cox said. "For our requirements, NetPerformer is simply the best solution on the market today."

A high performance platform to be used on GSM, DCME, VoIP or any voice and data converged network. The SDM-9600 enables operators to seamlessly integrate voice and data applications while substantially reducing monthly recurring costs.

The SDM-9600 has been designed to meet the needs of operators with complex distributed networks. It offers the highest density, capacity and performance available today. SDM-9600 includes an integrated access router for central offices. Designed for modular growth and standards evolution, it provides complete fault-tolerance and scalability as well as greater processing speeds and bandwidth capacity.

A modular, high-capacity format makes the SDM-9600 the ideal solution for the most demanding sites in a converged network. In conjunction with other NetPerformer products, it enables each site to be configured with the appropriate combination of services, performance, and scalability to avoid unnecessary costs. The SDM-9600 chassis supports multiple blades for aggregation and redistribution of voice and data traffic. Using an open architecture, it can support up to 80 T1/E1 data&voice digital spans, 2400 channels of digital voice, or 600 TRXs of GSM Abis/Ater traffic in a single 5U chassis.

Designed to provide the level of redundancy and fault-tolerant operation, the SDM-9600 ensures uninterrupted service. In addition to dual power feed at the chassis level, each blade support 1:N redundant voice processors and 1:1 overall blade redundancy, delivering high availability for those mission critical applications and revenue generating services. The SDM-9600 also supports alternate routing and can automatically switch to another WAN if needed.

The SDM-9600 is ideal for Digital Circuit Multiplication Equipment (DCME) applications. PowerCell voice support provides greater bandwidth savings than standard VoIP, over any type of infrastructure. The SDM-9600 also supports standards VoIP via the SIP protocol and a wide range of voice codecs, providing interoperability for multi-vendor as well as mixed private/public networks. The NetPerformer SDM-9600 connects to both PSTN and legacy PBX units, providing a smooth migration path for legacy telephony equipment to VoIP.

The SDM-9600 efficiently packetizes and compresses voice and LAN traffic. It transports data and voice over packet/cell-based connection-oriented or wireless networks infrastructures. All traffic is prioritized, then combined for transport over private or public networks. *Prioritization functionality is provided by PowerCell®, a NetPerformer's award winning cell-based QoS prioritization technology.

The SDM-9600 operates on a variety of WAN infrastructures: leased lines, satellite, or packet-based networks such as IP, Frame Relay and ATM. It provides operators the flexibility to choose between the most economical or most readily available network facility and enables the migration to other network infrastructures without any additional cost.

The NetPerformer SDM-9600 platform can also provide satellite-based converged communications. Memotec has partnerships with major satellite vendors providing support for SCPC, TDMA, IP broadband satellite technologies. Carriers can operate a hybrid satellite/Leased line-Microwave topology over a single platform, further reducing costs and minimizing complexity. Specifications are subject to change without prior notification.

SkyPerformer is a prepackaged software option that enables quick and easy satellite transport functionality for NetPerformer gateways. By packetizing and compressing voice, data and video traffic over satellite, SkyPerformer easily extends telecommunications services to remote locations.

• Converge via a low-cost hybrid satellite/terrestrial platform
• Deliver toll-quality voice services
• Support single-hop voice and data
• Consolidate voice, data and video over a single network
• Support multi-protocol data and LAN traffic
• Enable single frequency, multi-location broadcasts
• Interface with any third party satellite modem

SkyPerformer is ideal for distributed or multi-site enterprise networks where terrestrial services are poor, nonexistent or cost prohibitive. SkyPerformer inter-operates and is compatible with public networks, such as Frame Relay, IP or ATM to enable hybrid satellite/terrestrial networks on a single network infrastructure.
Prepackaged as a quick and easy software license upgrade to your NetPerformer gateway, SkyPerfomer provides the unique ability to use a single satellite frequency to broadcast to multiple remote locations. Ideal for small- to medium-size networks requiring voice, multi-protocol data and LAN support, this "Switch in the Sky" capability saves you money by reducing the need for multiple space segments and decreasing the amount of hardware needed in the initial installation.

Combined on a single platform and network management system, hybrid satellite/terrestrial networks minimize network complexity and lower the cost of your communication infrastructure. What's more, as terrestrial lines become available in your service area, you can easily bring SkyPerformer back down to earth by deactivating the software – allowing you to maintain the same hardware platform and management system on which you have come to trust and depend.

SkyPerformer integrates with Memotec's family of integrated access products under the same user-friendly network management system, ActView 3000. A comprehensive SNMP software tool for the configuration and management of your SkyPerformer/NetPerformer system, ACTView 3000 depicts your network's topology using simple to understand graphics and icons. ActView integrates with HP OpenView for Windows and Unix Solaris, ensuring that your SkyPerformer platform can be managed using today's most popular and universal network management software.

SkyPerformer supports all the telephony needs of today's distributed satellite-based networks. By supporting industry standard signaling technologies and connecting to most PBXs, SkyPerformer allows you to further reduce costs by integrating a wide variety traffic types, including modem, fax and digital voice, onto a single network. SkyPerformer also provides toll-quality 8Kbps voice compression with dynamic fallback to 6Kbps in congestion situations.

SkyPerformer integrates the disparate phone systems of individual sites and eliminates the need for consistency among sites, saving cost and increasing flexibility.

By seamlessly integrating with any public network, SkyPerformer ensures compatibility with leading network access technologies.

SkyPerformer operates in hybrid satellite/terrestrial network topologies for extension of public or private packet-based networks and supports single-hop voice and data. SkyPerformer also supports a variety of satellite network topologies, including single or distributed star, partially or full meshed and point-topoint, without an expensive hub or DAMA controller.

As a hubless VSAT solution requiring neither an expensive DAMA controller nor a central switch site (TDMA), SkyPerformer is the clear choice for star and partial-mesh networks of around 200 nodes or for full-mesh networks using less than 25 nodes. Simply choose the topology that's right for your enterprise:

Small- to medium-sized networks that carry a mix of voice and data, with remote locations communicating to your central site.

Star networks in which each remote location must connect to a central or multiple data centers.

Primarily star networks in nature, but requiring single-hop communication between a few remote locations.

Ease of management and less bandwidth requirements make SkyPerformer the perfect fit for the small network that demands full-mesh connectivity, linking all your remote locations via a single satellite hop. Or, operating in unison with our renowned terrestrial networking solution, NetPerformer, interface with any Frame Relay network to extend your reach to even the farthest corners of the globe via SkyPerformer's unique hybrid networking capability.



The ideal solution for the needs of the field, branch, regional or central office in a converged network, SkyPerformer offers features that allow each individual site to be configured with just the right combination of services, performance and scalability, giving you added flexibility and helping you to avoid unnecessary cost.

Specifications are subject to change without prior notification.