Via Satellite is one of the most important products that satellite companies have begun to expand over the past period and have found popular markets around the world due to the speed and regularity of service.
Equipment and its ability to reach remote and poor areas of infrastructure, especially telephone lines in addition to its ability to reach the high seas and connect commercial vessels and passenger ships in addition to aircraft
Historically, the satellite Internet did not actually start in 1995 after the launch of the first high-frequency satellite known as the Ka Band, the US spacewalk, followed by KaStar, later renamed Wild Blue, which many companies have launched into space. Including Motorola, Lockheed Martin, Ecostar and J. American
This move has encouraged Internet giants, especially Microsoft, to seriously consider taking advantage of high-speed satellite data transmission
Microsoft spent $ 9 billion with Erdium Telecom and Global Satellites in the Telesec project, which aimed to launch a range of satellite broadband technology to provide 720 megabytes (MB) of Internet service at a low cost, but the project failed in 2003 after the bankruptcy of Erdium and Global
In 2004, the American satellite Anik F2 was launched with broadband technology and achieved great success in data transfer speeds of more than 3 Mbps
In 2011, the third generation of satellite satellites appeared in space, represented by satellites VIA Sat 1 and 2 and Hughes Net, which reached data transmission speed to 15 megabytes per second
Advantages of the Internet
- Do not need to use a large clamp for reception and enough dish diameter of 70 cm
- Super speed up to 100 megabytes per second
- Access to remote areas that suffer from the lack of telephone lines or cables
- Internet access to the air in passenger aircraft and to the sea in cargo ships and passengers
- Pricing licenses compared to the costs of traditional Internet networks known as DSL, which require the extension of cables or fiber optic
- Secure data transfer and communications
