Friedrichshafen, April 12, 2010 – ND SatCom, an SES ASTRA company, is on the short list for the Citrix Innovation Award 2010 with its satellite-based IT solution XWARP. The award winner will be announced during the Citrix Synergy event in San Francisco from May 12-14, 2010. XWARP is the first satellite-based IT solution which offers companies with a distributed workforce or their IT service providers, almost latency-free software performance by separating the user interface from the application running on the server. XWARP enables satellite internet connections to run at LAN speed with the lowest satellite bandwidth consumption, even in the most remote areas.
ND SatCom will launch XWARP at SatCom Africa in Johannesburg, from April 13-14, 2010, for the international satellite communications and IT markets.
The nomination for the Citrix Innovation Award honors ND SatCom’s ground-breaking technological vision of XWARP by combining satellite communications with Citrix’ virtualization technologies XenDesktop, XenServer, XenApp and Access Gateway. “This innovative solution for the first time enables Cloud Computing services via satellite at almost zero latency. ND SatCom has not only created a new IT solution, but entered into a completely new market segment which offers significant growth potential“, says Christian Adolph, Director of Marketing at ND SatCom.
“This is an extremely efficient and high performance product that provides responsiveness that is better than many internal, LAN-based SAP implementations without using a lot of satellite bandwidth. XWARP incorporates years of network optimization background and a relentless focus on end-user experience from Citrix to deliver one of the most compelling and innovative satellite-based offerings I have seen”, states Scott Herren, Managing Director and VP EMEA, Citrix Systems.
ND SatCom, a leading system integrator for satellite communications networks for the commercial and public sectors, originally developed XWARP for its own use: Like many companies, ND SatCom had to overcome the challenge of upgrading its critical ERP, CRM and CAD offerings for 400 employees at 15 locations in eleven countries with limited IT staff resources, budget and outdated hardware.
ND SatCom introduced hosted virtual desktops for centralized management and delivery of its applications to branch office employees, and hosted Blade PC desktops for its CAD engineers, providing the superior performance of HDX technology for graphics-intensive applications. Additionally, ND SatCom completely replaced its existing server virtualization environment with Citrix.
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