What is VSAT?
VSAT offers highly reliable, flexible support of integrated multimedia communications. Compared to alternative technologies, VSAT offers customers the following features and benefits:
* Star network topology - offers end-to-end shared hub services for network requirements that cannot economically support a dedicated hub and operated by experienced staff to ensure optimum service levels.
* Full mesh connectivity - provides a hubless network using only one satellite hop, offers lower delay and better response times. Smaller networks can be implemented at lower costs than traditional hub-based systems.
* Bandwidth-on-Demand - architecture automatically allocates a pool of bandwidth to meet customer requirements of any site. The customer can move or add host computers and PABX's without having to re-engineer or re-size the network. Servers may be centralized or distributed. The bandwidth automatically "follows" the new traffic patterns.
* Scalability of network capacity - The aggregate network capacity can be increase from time to time as the number of sites and volume per site grows.
* Modularity and open system architecture - supports modular and open system architecture. The customer can expand the number of interfaces at the indoor unit as he requires.
* Economics of statistical multiplexing - Multiple applications share the same bandwidth. The customer uses and pays for less total bandwidth than with the more traditional multiple dedicated network approaches.
* Network Management and Control - operating on global standards and operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for some of major Earth Stations.
* Cost effective solution - provides cost-effective communication solutions with high level functionality and performance since the pricing is distance independent. It offers a competitive alternative even for countries, which have a high degree of communication infrastructure.
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