Challenges:
Energy enterprises and their downstream production and sales companies are increasingly dependent on their network infrastructure to lead their markets, outperform competitors, or even just to survive amongst fierce competition.

Energy production: Production sites are often located in remote regions of the world where there is little or no network availability — including on the oceans. These sites rely on limited, expensive satellite or land-based wireless solutions to link their networks with the vast data systems at headquarters. The ability to connect to primary business systems, and maintain realtime communications to share front-line production statistics and information, is crucial. Due to the nature of satellite and wireless links, packet latency and loss, and other complicating network factors, transmission quality and speed are often reduced, resulting in low responsiveness of business systems, impacting work productivity and resource efficiency.

Energy sales: Energy companies generally have large-scale branch locations that use leased lines. As business activity increases, network traffic can become substantial and burden the bandwidth, leading to sluggish business systems responsiveness.

Based on the above analysis, we can reach the following conclusions: Energy companies have three primary transmission bottlenecks when it comes to data connectivity: 1) Poor quality transmission links for remote energy production sites — such as satellite or wireless links, or relatively slow international links, 2) Excess traffic volume on dedicated lines — such as on dedicated lines from sales branch offices to headquarters, and 3) Slow responsiveness of major business systems, including the ERP system and databases.

Our Solutions:
SANGFOR WANO’s total WAN acceleration solutions can enable energy companies to easily accelerate their important applications and data and enjoy LAN-like application responsiveness across the corporate WAN — including from remote locations in deserts or open sea, and over wireless or long-distance links. WANO can improve network performance via link optimization, redundant data elimination, and protocol proxying:

  Coping with poor network performance over satellite or international links: Because raw industrial materials are remotely located, energy company branch sites often have low performance connections to headquarters, with high packet latency and loss. SANGFOR WANO utilizes its proprietary HTP transport technology to significantly improve network efficiency, being especially suitable for satellite, wireless and other high packet-loss topologies. With protocol proxying, WANO can reduce unnecessary application traffic and improve responsiveness and productivity.

  Handling high data traffic volume on leased lines: Redundant data is often the cause of high traffic volume on the leased lines of energy companies. By eliminating this redundant traffic, bandwidth utilization can be significantly improved, essentially freeing up bandwidth. SANGFOR WANO’s Flow Caching technology eliminates the redundant data and, in combination with LZO and GZIP compression, further reduce in-transit data volume to improve transport efficiency;

  Dealing with low business applications responsiveness: Energy companies often implement internal ERP systems, with protocols primarily designed for LAN transmission. When such systems are used across the WAN, transmission speed — and thus responsiveness — can significantly drop. SANGFOR WANO’s protocol proxying technology can optimize CIFS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, MAPI and other protocols, effectively improving the transmission speeds of email, finance and ERP systems.