The Christmas Secret

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Tooway, Satellite Internet Access, Inmarsat, Astra2connect, Midstar-1, Orbcomm, Row 44, Disaster Monitoring Constellation, Very Small Aperture Terminal, Qiniq, O3b Networks, Ltd., Astra2connect Maritime Broadband, Thaicom 4, Astra 1e, Cleo, Aircell, Starband, Hughes Communications, Chipsat, Onair, Flynet, Configurable Fault Tolerant Processor, Iris, Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Itc Global Career Certifications, Lamit Company, Udcast, Uosat-12, Ts 2, Cfesat, Technologie Satelitarne, Avc Broadband. Excerpt: Example of the terminal dish used to access the ASTRA2Connect system in Europe ASTRA2Connect is a two-way satellite broadband Internet service available across Europe , which launched in March 2007, and uses the ASTRA series of geostationary satellites . ASTRA2Connect is owned and operated by ASTRA Broadband Services (ABBS), a subsidiary of SES ASTRA , itself a subsidiary of SES based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg . ASTRA2Connect provides high-speed Internet access (at up to 2Mbit/s) at a flat rate cost to end users, along with VoIP , IPTV , and content-on-demand facilities, without any requirement for a landline, cable or terrestrial wireless connection. Application Close up of the receive/transmit iLNB used on the ASTRA2Connect terminal dish The ASTRA2Connect service makes broadband Internet access available to homes in rural locations or otherwise beyond the reach of existing terrestrial broadband services. Outside the major European urban centres, there are millions of households currently without broadband access through landlines. and by 2010, up to 6million, or 3.5 %, of the 170 million homes in Western Europe will still be without terrestrial broadband access. ASTRA2Connect can also be used for transportable broadband Internet access, where the location or its temporary n...