By satnews
Publication Date: 2026-02-27 08:11:00
ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, will bring XWARP™ to the international satellite and IT community during SatCom Africa in Johannesburg (South Africa) from April 13-14, 2010. XWARP™ is the first IT solution to offer geographically distributed companies or their IT service providers almost latency-free, virtualized and bandwidth-optimized software performance at the user’s front end – especially for business critical applications such as SAP, Oracle, SharePoint and MS Office.
“Overcoming latency and maintaining reasonable costs are typical challenges for transmission via satellite. Satellite communications networks are therefore often not the first choice for backup networks and enterprise connectivity for business critical applications. However, XWARP™’s combination of satellite with Citrix virtualization technology now enables, for the first time, cost-efficient Cloud Computing via satellite. With XWARP™, companies can provide virtualized applications from their data centers to users anywhere and anytime, and minimize latency in satellite-based IT networks to almost zero with our new technology enhancements”, says Christian Adolph, Director of Marketing at ND SatCom.
XWARP™’s concept is based on the use of Citrix XenApp in the data center and ND SatCom’s SkyWAN®, the leading MF-TDMA satellite router, and can either be implemented in an existing terrestrial network environment, in existing Citrix infrastructure or as a completely new network…
