Global Protocols wireless solutions offer a robust feature set and a series of extensions to standard Internet protocols that, when installed on a network device, maximize link utilization and reliability in a stressed transmission environment. Developed in Global Protocols, Inc. labs by leading specialists in the field of stressed networking and protocol engineering, our solutions have been applied to satellite, terrestrial wireless, mobile wireless telemetry, and hybrid networks where the operational and environmental rigors of wireless degrade network performance.

Global Protocols' Solutions Provide:

1. Performance

Our solutions accelerate IP throughput over a geosynchronous satellite by a minimum of 17x the rate of standard TCP. Improvement ratios increase significantly when run over errored and asymmetric links. Performance gains vary in terrestrial and near-earth wireless applications, depending on environmental and operational network conditions.

2. Efficiency

SkipWare® and SCPS-M™ protocols achieve bandwidth efficiencies in excess of 90%, before payload compression.

3. Cost

Much of the development costs for our technology were funded by federal and military sponsors, so there are no sunk R&D costs to recover through inflated licensing fees.

4. Simplicity

Because SkipWare® and SCPS-M™ are designed to operate in a gateway model, it is not necessary to deploy them on every remote client machine. A single gateway serves the entire LAN, allowing for simple, unobtrusive integration into the network. Smart congestion controls and transparent bridging features make these protocols true plug-and-play technologies.

5. Interoperability

SkipWare and SCPS-M are designed to interoperate with other common networking protocols, including TCP, DVB and SCPS-TP. Unlike competing technologies, our protocols do not "take over" your wireless network, and do not require pairwise deployment. It can be selectively deployed into the network as budget and operational needs dictate.

6. Maintainability

Because SkipWare and SCPS-M are based on IETF-standard TCP, all community experience and diagnostic tools associated with TCP can be also applied to SkipWare. This eliminates dependence on high-cost proprietary product support.

7. Portability

SkipWare and SCPS-M are available on multiple operating systems and can be installed on virtually any network device with sufficient resources to support the required network throughput.

8. Open Source

SkipWare and SCPS-M are based on the open-source SCPS-TP reference code, so users are not obligated to a single vendor for support and follow-on development.

9. International Standard

SkipWare complies with the ISO, CCSDS, and DoD Mil-Std standards for data transport.

10. Install Base

SkipWare and SCPS-M are the most broadly deployed SCPS implementations in the US military. They have been standardized on by many of the DoD's largest tactical and fixed strategic networks, including the US Army JNN and DISA STEP and Teleport systems.

The flagship product of Global Protocols, SkipWare® was the industry's first commercial implementation of the Space Communications Protocol Standards Transport Protocol (SCPS-TP). Recognized today as the worldwide leader among SCPS implementations, SkipWare boasts the largest install base and the broadest set of host platforms in the industry. Licensees range from satellite hardware vendors to DoD systems integrators to networking giants. American-owned and American-made, SkipWare is the name warfighters and networking professionals have come to trust for SCPS acceleration.

Since the initial release of SkipWare v. 1.0, Global Protocols has focused on providing our customers with architectural flexibility, high-performance and ease of use, while remaining true to the original open-source SCPS standard. In addition to providing the highest bandwidth efficiencies of any SCPS implementation in the market today, users of SkipWare-powered devices can be assured of full standards-compliance and the highest level of cross-vendor interoperability. Self-tuning and transparent to the network, SkipWare devices can be dropped into a network and provide instant acceleration with no user configuration required.

Feature Set:

- SCPS-based Acceleration (Mil-Std-2045-44000 Compliant)

- Dynamic Bandwidth Acceleration

- Packet and Header Compression

- Quick Sart

- Selective Negative Acknowledgments (SNACK)

- Selective Acknowledgments (SACK)

- Explicit Congestion Control (ECN)

- Asymmetric Routing Tolerance

- VLAN Support & Redirection

- Policy Based Routing (PBR) Support

- GRE Tunnel Support

- Intelligent Congestion Controls

- Dynamic Banwidth Support/Automatic Window Scaling

- Rate Paced Acceleration

- Path MTU Discovery

- DoD-mandated Security Features

- Acceleration Performance Monitoring & Reporting

- IPv6

- HTTP Caching

- SNMPv1/v2/v3 Network Management

- Large Queue Support

- Packet Reorder Tolerance

- Fail-to-Wire Support

- Black Hole Detection & Recovery

WAN Rate:

- vUnlimited

Simultaneous Sessions:

- Unlimited

For a copy of the Space Communications Protocol Specification (SCPS) Transport Protocol (SCPS-TP) Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) please send inquiries to support@globalprotocols.com.

Global Protocols SCPS vendor identifier is 16.

For more information on integrating SkipWare into your network, consult our Integration Resource page, or contact a Global Protocols representative.

SkipWare-Mobile™ by Global Protocols, Inc. is a SCPS implementation designed expressly for mobile and lightweight networking. The software has been built with a small footprint and minimal resource consumption, giving it the flexibility to operate on virtually any networking platform regardless of its operating specs.

SkipWare mobile can operated as an imbedded system on a lightweight networking device, or function equally as well as a client on an end user workstation. Designed with the same robust features as all of Global Protocols' SCPS implementations, it is fully interoperable with any SCPS-compliant device and other SkipWare-based platforms.

SkipWare-Mobile's design provides the flexibility to implement SCPS wherever it is most architecturally suited to meet the network user's performance requirements. Potential target hardware includes:

• Laptops/Workstations
• Handheld devices
• Wireless routers
• Field data radios
• Telemetry systems
• USB-based devices
• Avionics packages

SkipWare-Mobile is available for licensing and integration, or can be integrated immediately into a network through the products of a Skipware-Mobile licensee.

Operating Systems:

- Linux

- MS Windows

Feature Set:

- Rate Paced Acceleration

- Packet and Header Compression

- Bandwidth Shaping Controls

- Selective Negative Acknowledgments (SNACK)

- Selective Acknowledgments (SACK)

- Asymmetric Routing Tolerance

- GRE Tunnel Acceleration

- VLAN Acceleration

- Dynamic Bandwidth Acceleration (D-TDMA, S-TDMA/DAMA, SAMA, DVB/RCS)

- Path MTU Discovery

- Dual Stack IPv4 & IPv6

Simultaneous Sessions:

- Unlimited

- 32000 Maximum Acclerated Sessions

WAN Rate:

- Unlimited

SkipWare® is an imbedded software product. It is most commonly sold through an OEM licensing model where the licensee distributes SkipWare to its end users as an imbedded service on the licensee's hardware platform.

Global Protocols engineers have extensive experience integrating SkipWare into a wide range of networking hardware, including PC/104s, single board computers, workstations and micro devices. Rather than simply providing the software to our customers and burdening them with the potentially complex and costly integration process, most licensees find the more practical integration model to be one where experienced Global Protocol engineers perform the integration to the target hardware. This proves to be the quickest and least expensive method of getting to market with a SkipWare solution. The process includes the following services:

• Provide the prospective licensee with a generic SkipWare evaluation platform to demonstrate the performance benefits of the product
• Assess the resources of the licensee's target hardware to ensure that requisite performance levels can be met
• Customize SkipWare user interfaces with the licensee's brands and marks
• Integrate SkipWare software on the licensee's hardware such that it does not impede other services on the hardware
• Test under a broad set of operational and environmental conditions to ensure that licensee's performance requirements are met
• Test for interoperability with other standards-compliant SCPS platforms
• Provide licensee with a master binary/distribution copy of SkipWare

Global Protocols commonly performs the integration service at no cost to the licensee, and also provides ongoing support, maintenance and software updates both to our licensees and their end users. This model is designed to eliminate the cost and risks to our licensees of going to market with a SCPS-compliant product, and has proven very successful for all of our current partners.

SkipWare products are licensed to eligible partners under the terms of an OEM agreement. This agreement entitles our licensees to:

• A customized master binary of the specified version of SkipWare
• SkipWare software updates
• Integration support
• Right to use of SkipWare brands and marks
• Sales and sales engineering support
• User manual generation support
• Guaranteed standards compliance
• Fixed, negotiated royalties for the duration of the agreement

SkipWare licensing is simple and flexible. It is designed to add performance value to our partners' products, without disrupting their pricing or distribution strategies. With a wide variety of licensing options, Global Protocols' OEM agreements can be tailored to meet the specific go-to-market strategies of our licensees.

For more information on SkipWare licensing models, please contact a Global Protocols sales representative.

Comtech EF Data, Corporation

Global Protocols and Comtech EF Data have been partnered for more than 7 years as the companies behind the highly successful turboIP® line of SkipWare-based accelerators. The dominant name in DoD acceleration, turboIP has historically been selected for most of the US military's largest tactical military networks. For more information on the turboIP line, visit the Comtech website.

DataPath, Inc.

The DataPath IP Accelerator™ is a SkipWare-enabled tactical accelerator, designed primarily for military field communications. Sold extensively throughout USMC and Army networks, the IP Accelerator is available in a ruggedized, settop form factor, making it ideal for man portable and on the move communication. For more information on the DataPath IP Accelerator, visit their website.

Riverbed, Inc.

Global Protocols OEMs SkipWare for Riverbed's line of Steelhead WAN optimization products. Available on the full range of Steelhead devices, from the low end WAN rates through their high-speed devices, SkipWare-enabled Steelheads combine SCPS acceleration with Riverbed's cross-layer WAN optimization technologies. For more information on the SkipWare-enabled Steelhead, please visit the Riverbed website.

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Global Protocols has partnered with Cisco to build the SkipWare Application Extension Platform (AXP). The SkipWare AXP is an integration of Global Protocols' SCPS implementation onto a blade-based module that integrates directly into a Cisco 2800/3800 series Integrated Services Router (ISR). The SkipWare AXP allows users to add SkipWare without introducing a new appliance to the network, and at 1.5 lbs, the SkipWare AXP offers the lowest size, weight and power (SWaP) of any SkipWare platform. For more information on the SkipWare AXP, please visit Cisco's website.

MissionMobility, LLC

MissionMobility is a leading vendor of mobile tactical communication kits. As a licensee of Global Protocols' PEP-on-a-Board™ product, MissionMobility provides SCPS-based acceleration to their customers through an imbedded SkipWare PC/104 board. For more information on MissionMobility's products, please visit their website.

DTECH Labs, Inc.

DTECH LABS is a provider of diverse mission solutions, supporting mobile communication for tactical military, government and first-responder organizations. DTECH provides SkipWare-based acceleration through Global Protocols' PEP-on-a-Board™ PC/104 product. For more information on the DTECH line of mobile communication products, please visit their website.