Hermes News and Events

Yuzhno Install

July 08

New satellite link in Yuzhno, Sakhalin Island.

 

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Hermes Installation in Basra

April 08

Hermes completed its first installation in Iraq, providing a link from UK to Basra.

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Hermes UK welcomes new Admin Assistant


Hermes UK is pleased to welcome a new Admin assistant to its team.

 

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Hermes makes new connection with Petrofac


Hermes has connected the new office of Petrofac Int Ltd in Samara to its corporate network

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Hermes Skyflex

Hermes Skyflex Improves SCPC satellite performance by 30%

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Hermes pilots new Monitoring System

Hermes is piloting a new monitoring system - Orion - which monitors all network components in real time

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Expansion at Hermes UK Earthstation

Hermes has added a new cabin at its UK earthstation, doubling the indoor capacity available for new links.


New contracts in North Africa

Hermes has won additional work in Libya and Algeria with a total of 12 new links to be installed in the first quarter of 2008.

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Internet Access

Definition:
Access to public internet

Provision:
Hermes provides a dedicated link from the remote site to its internet gateway in London. Moscow, Houston or Copenhagen.

Typical Network Diagram: (with/without VPN)

 

Features:

Speed/Bandwidth

Can be asymmetric or symmetric. 64Kbps +

Interface

Ethernet

Service Level Agreement:

 

            Latency

Round trip ping time to/from gateway less than 600ms.

            Errors

Packet loss from gateway under 0.001%

            Availability

Normally 99.98% excluding scheduled maintenance and solar outages  minutes/month

Security

Security protection such as NAT/PAT and firewall can be provided if required.

Static IP Addresses

One or more static IP addresses are provided if required

Managed VPN

Hermes will supply and support VPN termination equipment if required at the internet gateway, and will assist as required in configuration and maintenance of VPN.

Acceptable use

subject to jurisdiction of gateway

Contention

None. All links are uncontended to tier 1 internet providers

Protocol acceleration and compression

Layer 2 data compression techniques are normally utilised to provide up to 30% increase in data transmission speed over uncompressed links.

 

Protocol acceleration is not normally applied but is available where required.

Management

Link is managed from Hermes internet gateway to customer site

Redundancy

Not normally provided

Acceptance Testing

Protocol-based throughput testing to Hermes gateway

File transfer tests to/from internet sites