SLOUGH, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Expand Networks, www.expand.com, the leader in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, together with the leading global communications provider, SeaMobile Europe, have been jointly honored at the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards 2010, winning the prestigious prize for Satellite Service Innovation.

SeaMobile and Expand Networks’ winning project successfully advanced satellite services for the global relief agency, Tearfund, to ensure resilient communications across its global network of aid teams.

The collaboration on the Tearfund project beat off hundreds of nominations for the industry’s most innovative projects that were received from the readers of Global Telecoms Business in 2010. Adam Davison, corporate VP of sales and marketing at Expand Networks explains the project:

“Operating in areas where fixed infrastructure is simply not available, Satellite links provided by SeaMobile are imperative to the work that Tearfund carries out. However, Satellite links are notoriously low on bandwidth and high on latency, and this meant employees located in remote locations had limited access to critical data and applications. Our challenge, together with Tearfund’s value-added technology partner, Nettitude, was to compress and accelerate all traffic over the satellite network to make sure it was delivered into the hands of the employees who needed it, when they needed it.”

By applying a combination of optimization techniques such as compression, QoS and byte-level caching, the completed project gave Tearfund the equivalent throughput of 2Mgs across a 300Kbps satellite connection, ultimately improving communications between its staff and supporting organizations, and helping to ensure relief to millions of people around the globe.

Davison continued, “We are all delighted to receive this award. It’s a celebration of a very successful collaboration between SeaMobile and Expand, and one which we both hope to replicate in the future to further advance services for customers. The award also chimes with our own continued commitment in working closely with our global telco partners in helping to better manage the flow of traffic and optimize communications offerings to organizations across the globe.”

The winners were announced during a gala dinner at the Park Lane Hotel in London last night. In presenting the Awards, Alan Burkitt-Gray, editor of Global Telecoms Business, commented: “This is the fourth time we’ve run our Innovation Awards and each year we’ve seen that the industry is working harder and harder to deliver exciting and innovative services to its customers worldwide. Congratulations to all the award winners. The industry is seeing a wave of innovation which is making a huge difference — to the companies working in the industry and to all of us in business and as consumers. They are making such a difference to the world. We want to celebrate what they are doing.”

Global Telecoms Business magazine, which is read by the industry leaders in the telecommunications industry worldwide, is part of the Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC group.

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