On Call Communications Selects XipLink’s WAN Optimization

August 26, 2013, Montréal, Canada–XipLink, the technology leader in wireless link optimization, announced that On Call Communications has selected XipLink to provide acceleration and optimization for their QuickSPOT™ automated newsgathering system. XipLink's unique stream based two-way compression and industry leading SCPS TCP Acceleration mitigates the effects of satellite latency while increasing overall end customer application performance.

On Call Communications will embed the XipLink optimization software directly into the QuickSPOT™ broadcast satellite system.  Integration of the XipLink Embedded (XE) solution will reduce box count and terminal weight, complementing a rapid set-up, simple to use and high performance news gathering package that takes advantage of both cellular and satellite services, allowing the delivery of live news from virtually anywhere.  

"XipLink gives us the flexibility we need to deploy the appropriate technology given the customer application. Their optimization appliances are augmented by an embedded software solution offering that gives us the ability to meet the environmental and mobility demands of our clients." said Jim Gilbert, President of On Call Communications.

"XipLink’s scalability enhances their cost to performance value proposition.  "XipLink provides scalable and fully interoperable solutions between our appliance and embedded software solutions, which is especially valuable for state-of-the-art mobile devices such as the On Call Communications QuickSPOT™ system", said Jack Waters, "This allows our customers to deploy a variety of physical solutions, be that an appliance, embedded device, or a virtual machine with full interoperability. Customers can start off small and grow their implementation as their business grows,"  he added.