Vsat

[vsat]

Hello, I'm doing researches on vsat networking.
I'm searching the vsat structure (especially on hardware components).
Has anyone some piece of technical information ?

Thx for your answers.

 

[minorthr]

If you are looking at this for a business application I would suggest not doing it. The company I work for has vsat deployed to about 600 locations. For our purposes it is not doing the job. We have a lot of locations in Florida and any time it rains the vsat goes down or becomes so slow doing remote support is impossible. Also he have a lot of locations in upstate NY so in the winter time when it snows hundreds of inches up there the dishes are useless. We use Pc anywhere for remote support at these locations and the latency is horrible. IN some cases something that takes 5 minutes to do takes you 30 minutes because you are waiting on PCA to refresh. There are many times where we will disconnect from the vsat network and dial in with a modem to the location because we can get the work done faster. I have talked to a few other companies that have rolled vsat out and in the end they always ended up going to something else such as dsl or cable at the locations.