ILS ViaSat-1 Satellite Broadband 1 min to Launch

Viasat-1 recently launched (2:30pm US Eastern time)

ViaSat-1, the highest capacity satellite in the world, is designed to transform the economics and quality of service for satellite broadband.

With 140 Gbps total throughput capacity, the new satellite can serve the accelerating growth in bandwidth demand for multimedia Internet access over the next decade. The download and upload speeds available on ViaSat-1 will be much faster than anything previously offered in the satellite industry, and will transform the quality of satellite broadband.

The high-capacity Ka-band spot beam satellite covers North America and Hawaii, enabling a variety of new, satellite Internet access services beginning with WildBlue in the U.S. and Xplornet in Canada.

Then, beginning in 2012, the technology is also scheduled to begin delivering this new level of service to airline passengers aboard JetBlue Airways and Continental Airlines.

Beginning the transformation of high-speed satellite broadband services in North America.

Applications:
Direct-to-home residential broadband, in-flight Internet, government communications, enterprise services

Technologies:
Ka-band high-capacity satellite system architecture, including anchoring gateways and subscriber terminals

for more info visit http://launch.viasat.com/ViaSat-1-Launch_flash.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Satellite
• high
• speed
• internet
• broadband
• wireless
• ILS
• ViaSat

[The109926]

if someone has 4G sat with Xplornet can they plz say if it's better than 3GB?