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Satellite VPN
SuperVPN from Skycasters
Skycasters SuperVPN is the fastest, most cost-effective satellite VPN available from any provider.
This is not the same satellite VPN service offered by other satellite Internet providers, including the various providers of the VSAT Business Edition satellite Internet service. SuperVPN is a unique Skycasters offering that combines Skycasters facilities and satellite VPN technology with the VSAT satellite Internet system, eliminating the traditional performance problems associated with VPN-over-satellite. SuperVPN can be cost effective with as little as a single remote location. There is no minimum or maximum number of sites a customer may or must deploy.
Skycasters and other VSAT providers support most popular "regular" client-server VPNs (Cisco, Nortel, CheckPoint etc) over the VSAT Business Edition service, but it does not produce a robust user experience.
 If you have tried the VSAT satellite system, then you know that its email, web-browsing and FTP performance is superb. If you have tried using a VPN over the VSAT or other satellite services, you also know that performance suffers badly when a VPN is activated.
VPN service over satellite without SuperVPN is typically less than 33 kbps single user application at its best. Skycasters SuperVPN satellite VPN service eliminates this problem.
To enable the SuperVPN satellite VPN service, a Skycasters provided IPSec compliant VPN termination device will be installed at your headquarters location. All data traffic between your headquarters and your remote satellite locations will be transported exclusively across secure connections.
Traffic is carried across the Internet using IPSec 3DES VPN to our satellite uplink center, and from the uplink center traffic is carried across a secure, private satellite network to your remote site.
Data traffic across the private satellite space-link is protected by hardware-based (ASIC) encryption, DES encryption and Conditional Access using session-key technology. Each remote location requires our standard installation of an outdoor satellite dish and indoor modem and router.
SuperVPN is not a not a cure-all for satellite-related performance issues, it simply is a way to use VPN without the traditional severe VPN-induced degradation. It does not increase whatever level or speed of service that would be available for a particular protocol/application above the level found if the application/protocol were to be used "in the clear".
The basic SuperVPN satellite VPN service will support from 1 up to 50 remote sites. Customers have the option of split-tunneling non-secure public Internet traffic directly to the Internet backbone from the remote site, or having all traffic tunneled to the headquarters location for routing to the Internet. SuperVPN satellite VPN is not a transparent-LAN application, although limited host-to-remote connectivity may be established with customized solutions.
Serious Geeky Details
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Key Benefits
- Complete Solution - delivering Broadband Access with Link Redundancy, Routing, Switching and Security
- Integrated Network Security - stateful inspection firewall with URL filtering, hardware accelerated VPN encryption (DES and 3DES), and IDS detecting 100 signatures
- Integrated LAN Switching - 4 port 10/100BaseT switch with 802.1Q VLAN and MDI/MDIX auto-configuration
- High WAN Availability - ensures availability of network connection and applications with analog modem or ISDN back-up WAN
- Superior Manageability - CiscoWorks for centralized configuration and management. Embedded web-based Security Device Manager (SDM) for simplified device configuration management
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