Broadband & Network-Performance Engineering Closing the gap between the speed you pay for and the speed you actually get.
I am André Santos, a telecommunications and network-performance engineer with more than seventeen years of experience, including over seven years at XipLink, a vendor specialized in TCP/IP and WAN optimization for satellite, cellular, and fixed-wireless networks. My work centers on one persistent problem: why real-world broadband throughput so often falls short of the provisioned service tier — and how transport-layer optimization, latency and packet-loss mitigation, and field diagnostics close that gap, especially on the fixed-wireless and satellite links that serve rural and underserved communities.
andre@startus.net
Areas of Expertise
Network Architecture for Constrained Environments
Designing resilient network architecture for rural and remote sites, including hybrid satellite, cellular, and terrestrial integration and failover.
Proactive, Out-of-Band Support
Predictive correlation of link-layer signals with user-experience metrics to anticipate degradation before outages, reducing downtime and on-site dispatch
Fixed-Wireless & Satellite Link Performance
Diagnosing latency, jitter, and packet-loss on FWA and satellite links, and optimizing delivered TCP throughput on high-latency, high-loss paths
Diagnosing transport-layer bottlenecks and optimizing TCP/WAN performance on constrained links, grounded in the open RFC 3135 (PEP) and SCPS frameworks
Delivered-Performance Optimization (DPO)
Acceleratus (in development)
A broadband-performance optimization platform I am developing for small-office, rural, and underserved deployments — a customer-premises layer that improves delivered performance on top of existing connectivity. First functional version validated under emulated satellite conditions. (Associated with a pending Brazilian utility-model application, 2025.)
Technical Training (launching 2027)
A technical training program in broadband-performance optimization for network technicians and rural/regional operators, planned to launch in 2027.
About
My name is André Santos. I am a telecommunications and network-performance engineer with more than seventeen years in the field. For over seven years I worked at XipLink Inc., where I specialized in TCP/IP and WAN optimization for satellite, cellular, and hybrid networks — the class of problem where latency, packet loss, and link variability degrade the performance users actually receive.
Through Startus Technology LLC (Davenport, Florida), I am developing work focused on broadband-performance optimization for fixed-wireless and satellite links, with particular attention to the rural and underserved markets where reliable, high-performance connectivity remains hardest to deliver.
Contact
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