Direcway 7000 Series and DVB S2 Technology
Direcway has started delivery of all 7000 Series products with a new satellite, new uplink center and new packet technology - DVB S2. It promises to utilize bandwidth as much as 40% better than standard DVB S and allow Direcway to compete with iDirect platforms in the enterprise area and ka band offerings like Wildblue in the consumer sector.
Download and Upload speeds are much higher than Direcway has ever offered...up to 2000 kbps downloads and up to 1000 kbps uploads are offered with the DW-7700. Latency is also lower - in the range of 600-750 ms (compared to 675-1200+ ms on DW 6000 offerings).
Additionally, Direcway has rushed the consumer DW 7000 to the market in part due to the slow rollout of Wildblue Communications ka band product. The DW 7000 has download speeds up to 1500 kbps and uploads to 500 kbps at prices similar to Wildblue.
The new satellite they are uplinking to is Intelsat's IA-8 which was launched this spring and has a footprint over all of the U.S. and the Caribbean. The uplink center is state of the art and located in Las Vegas, NV, where weather is far better than the facility used up to now in Germantown, MD. for most of the Direcway services.
Early adopters have reported very good speeds with .74 to 1.2 meter dishes. Latency is higher than Wildblue for the consumer products in the early tests, but not enough data has been gathered to give a clear picture yet.
There will be more new vsat offerings coming during the next 12 months or so with more speed and features, but for now, enterprise and consumers not able to obtain terrestrial high speed internet will certainly get more for their money than has been offered in the past.
For additional information on the Direcway 7700 & 7000 see:
http://www.vsatus.com/Direcway%207700%20Service.htm
Download and Upload speeds are much higher than Direcway has ever offered...up to 2000 kbps downloads and up to 1000 kbps uploads are offered with the DW-7700. Latency is also lower - in the range of 600-750 ms (compared to 675-1200+ ms on DW 6000 offerings).
Additionally, Direcway has rushed the consumer DW 7000 to the market in part due to the slow rollout of Wildblue Communications ka band product. The DW 7000 has download speeds up to 1500 kbps and uploads to 500 kbps at prices similar to Wildblue.
The new satellite they are uplinking to is Intelsat's IA-8 which was launched this spring and has a footprint over all of the U.S. and the Caribbean. The uplink center is state of the art and located in Las Vegas, NV, where weather is far better than the facility used up to now in Germantown, MD. for most of the Direcway services.
Early adopters have reported very good speeds with .74 to 1.2 meter dishes. Latency is higher than Wildblue for the consumer products in the early tests, but not enough data has been gathered to give a clear picture yet.
There will be more new vsat offerings coming during the next 12 months or so with more speed and features, but for now, enterprise and consumers not able to obtain terrestrial high speed internet will certainly get more for their money than has been offered in the past.
For additional information on the Direcway 7700 & 7000 see:
http://www.vsatus.com/Direcway%207700%20Service.htm
posted by Randy Scott at 1:26 PM
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