Comtech EF Data CTOG-250 - Manual (Page 215)

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Appendix D. HEADER
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PAYLOAD COMPRESSION
D.1 Introduction
Chapter 7. ETHERNET-BASED REMOTE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Header and Payload Compression are standard features provided in Comtech EF Data’s
Advanced VSAT Series group of products, including the CTOG-250 Comtech Traffic Optimization
Gateway.
The CTOG-250 implements Payload Compression via the presence of Comtech AHA Corp.’s
AHA363 GZIP Compression Card. This PCI-e dedicated compression card provides the outbound
compression capabilities for maximum throughput and efficiency.
With Header Compression, the compression library that is incorporated into the CTOG-250 for
all IP traffic can reduce 40-byte IP/UDP/RTP headers to as little as one (1) byte, or as little as
three (3) bytes for TCP/IP. For Voice-over-IP (VoIP), Header Compression provides bandwidth
savings greater than 64%.
For example, using an 8kbps G.729E voice codec requires 24 kbps of IP bandwidth once
encapsulated into an IP/UDP/RTP datagram. With Comtech EF Data’s Header Compression
enabled, the same voice call requires only an approximate 8.5 kbps – a savings of almost 65%.
Additionally, bandwidth requirements for typical Web/HTTP traffic can be reduced by 10% or
more with TCP/IP Header Compression operation enabled.
With Payload Compression, the required satellite bandwidth can be reduced by as much as 40 to
50% based on Calgary Corpus files. The compression algorithm can be applied to all data, SLE
and DVB-S2 header excluded. Compression statistics are fed back to the Quality of Service (QoS)
system in order to maximize WAN utilization while maintaining priority, latency, and jitter.
D.1.1 Traffic Optimization
Traffic optimization through payload compression is provided on the CTOG-250 using Comtech
AHA Corp. compression technology and its installed compression card. The CTOG-250 ostensibly
supports a hardware-accelerated compression algorithm based on GZIP, a file format standard
where the underlying compression algorithm is called Deflate. Deflate is a compression