What is Inmarsat TCP PEP and what are the benefits ?
As part of the BGAN program, Inmarsat has developed a TCP Performance Enhancing Proxy, also known as TCP-PEP. This is an application running on the PC connected to a BGAN terminal. Upon execution the TCP-PEP application modifies the PC’s TCP-IP stack to make the data transfer more efficient over BGAN. Inmarsat have carried out an extensive test campaign which has demonstrated a clear performance improvment in using TCP-PEP, in some cases up to [50-100%]. However, the improvements heavily depend on a number of factors e.g. type of traffic, file sizes etc. The verification testing of the TCP PEP is not yet completely finalised, but it is now undergoing Beta testing, and is expected to be launched to end-users 3Q2006.
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