SteelHead™ Deployment Guide : Satellite Optimization
  
Satellite Optimization
This chapter describes how to configure transport optimization for satellite networks. When you tune transport settings for satellite networks, you can achieve improved performance and interoperability with other TCP performance-enhancing proxies (TCP-PEP). Tuning transport settings for satellite networks falls into two primary categories:
  • Space communications protocol specification (SCPS) discovery - Provides interoperations with third-party TCP-PEP devices.
  • Transport settings - Provide flexibility for TCP optimization algorithms.
    • This chapter includes the following sections:
  • Overview of Satellite Networks
  • Overview of SCPS
  • TCP Optimization for Satellite Environments
  • Licensing SCPS on a SteelHead
  • Configuring Satellite Optimization Features
  • Verification and Troubleshooting
    • If you are using a release prior to RiOS v7.0, SCPS was available through an RSP package and was not native to RiOS. The RSP SCPS package interoperates with SCPS native to RiOS v7.0. RSP SCPS package licenses are not valid for use as native RiOS SCPS licenses. Contact Riverbed Support or your sales team for assistance in converting RSP SCPS package licenses to native RiOS SCPS licenses.
    In RiOS v7.0.1 or later, RSP is replaced with VSP. VSP comes preinstalled in the SteelHead EX. For more information about VSP, see the SteelHead Management Console User’s Guide for the SteelHead EX. Your existing RSP packages work on VSP.