NetStar Technologies SecurSat VPN Service is the fastest, most cost-effective satellite VPN available. SecurSat VPN Service eliminates traditional performance problems associated with VPN-over-satellite. It can be cost effective with as little as a single remote location. There is no minimum or maximum number of sites a customer may or must deploy. 

NetStar Technologies supports most popular "regular" client-server VPNs (Cisco, Nortel, CheckPoint etc), however, these VPN applications don't produce a robust user experience over a satellite connection. If you have tried using one of these VPN applications over a satellite connection, you know that performance suffers badly when the VPN is activated. VPN service over satellite without SecurSat VPN Service is typically a less than 33 kbps single user application at its best. NetStar Technologies' SecurSat VPN Service eliminates this problem.
 

To enable the SecureSat VPN service, NetStar Technologies utilizes client chosen IPSEC compliant VPN hardware (router to router) to connect from the client's corporate data center to the satellite Network Operations Center to provide a secure connection between the client's corporate data center and the satellite Network Operations Center. All data traffic between the client's headquarters and remote satellite locations will be transported exclusively across secure connections. Traffic is carried across the Internet using an IPSec compliant VPN tunnel to the satellite uplink center, and from the uplink center traffic is carried across a private satellite network to the client's remote site. Each remote location requires the installation of one of our Two-Way Broadband Satellite Systems.

Due to the asymmetric nature of satellite Internet, certain applications do not perform very well over satellite, regardless of whether used in a VPN or in the clear. SecureSat VPN Service is not a not a cure-all for satellite-related performance issues. It's simply is a way to use a VPN without the traditional severe VPN-induced degradation. It does not increase whatever level or speed of service that would be available for a particular protocol/application above the level found if the application/protocol were to be used "in the clear".

SecureSat VPN Service will support from 1 up to  50 remote sites. Customers have the option of split-tunneling non-secure public Internet traffic directly to the Internet backbone from the remote site, or having all traffic tunneled to the headquarters location for routing to the Internet. SecureSat VPN Service is not a transparent-LAN application, although limited host-to-remote connectivity may be established with customized solutions.