Description:
Shared Access is a broadband satellite solution offering "always-on" Internet access and IP-based services enabling fast and cost-efficient professional-class communications for users on land. Designed using industry-best technologies, including iDirect™ and DVB-RCS, users are allocated individual carriers or time slots on a shared hub facility managed by Vizada. Bandwidth is pooled and shared allowing users to benefit from reduced communication costs without any loss of privacy. Part of Vizada's portfolio of Broadband Satellite Solutions, Shared Access provides standard and enhanced solutions for users with ongoing high-speed data requirements at a fixed monthly price.
Case study: Vizada Installs DVB-RCS System To Help Coordinate Disaster Recovery Operations in the U.S.
Vizada works with emergency planners to set up Internet service for emergency response operations in Mississippi in wake of Hurricane Katrina
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the United States Gulf Coast in August 2005, Vizada deployed a team of communications specialists to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi to assess communications needs for disaster recovery operations and immediately set up systems to meet field command and control center requirements.
Shortly after arriving in the town of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, north of Gulfport, Vizada technicians from the Southbury, Connecticut, teleport were directed to the region’s major command and control center called Camp Barron Point. The camp had been set up to receive more than 1,500 emergency workers from various federal, state, local and private organizations and serve as supply coordination center for the massive amounts of equipment and materials coming into the area. But a huge communications obstacle remained – the camp had no high-speed data or reliable Internet connectivity.
After installing a traditional C-band SCPC system to support the camps official business infrastructure with telephones, faxes and Internet, the team set up an Internet Café kiosk employing Digital Video Broadcast-Return Channel Satellite (DVB-RCS) technology. The system provided broadband Internet and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) connectivity at a speed of up to 512 kbps. The system was being used by the growing army of relief workers and hundreds of truck drivers with supply-laden tractor trailers who arrived daily at the camp and need to communicate via the Internet with home and office. The Vizada team also provided a router with WIFI, 2 phones, and two personal computers they had brought with them. In addition to improving the morale and welfare of the workers, the DVB-RCS system provided instant Internet access to the local organizations for coordination of operations in the region.
In a situation update e-mail to Vizada, Southbury Station Director Guy White reported, “We put up the DVB-RCS system with two phones and two PCs in a kiosk setup. It is well after midnight here and these emergency responders are using all of it. We have had dozens of police, firemen, and FEMA workers giving us thanks and telling us how much this was needed. All of the people here are amazed at how fast the system became operational and provided so much service with just a few small components. What is truly amazing is to have two simultaneous voice calls connected to the public switched network while at the same time two PC users accessing the World Wide Web faster than dialup speeds. We also noticed several users carrying lap top PCs and accessing the open WIFI network attached to the DVB terminal, all without difficulties.”
Vizada DVB-RCS service provides broadband communications via satellite to and from fixed and semi-fixed land-based locations where cable connections are unavailable or where satellite service is the preferred communications technology.
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