Satellite Communications

Rivulet solutions offer significant benefits for IP-based transport over satellite transport links. Satellite links have low bandwidth constraints, and adding more bandwidth is cost and time prohibitive. Traditional IP network loading practices limit bandwidth utilization for real time applications to less than 30 percent, resulting in tremendous waste of satellite link bandwidth. Rivulet enables the bandwidth utilization to be much higher – up to 90 percent. This significant increase in utilization provides a much higher return on the satellite investment and defers expensive and time-consuming satellite expansion projects.

A Rivulet solution for satellite services can:

• Improve utilization of satellite link bandwidth regardless of link speed
• Rescue wasted satellite bandwidth from over-provisioning practices
• Support real-time and mission-critical applications, reducing network buffering and therefore reducing packet loss, latency and jitter. 
• Dramatically improve efficiencies when supporting TCP/IP applications over satellite by synchronizing real-time user traffic to eliminate collisions and packet loss while significantly reducing latency and jitter