Ku Band Surfbeam - It Works Well...
I have been testing a Ku Band Surfbeam groundstation for a fairly new entrant in the vsat world, Unasat Communications LLC for the last 4 weeks. They are affiliated with one of the largest independent telephone companies in the U.S. - Wood County Telephone Co. out of Wisconsin.
The standard vsat internet setup is a 1.2 meter dish, the Surfbeam SM-1000 modem and either a two or four watt transmitter. I have tested both the 2 watt and 4 watt setup's and must say they are impressive. The speeds are dependable, pings are enterprise quality over 80% of the time and voip works flawlessly.
The 4 watt setup is downright enterprise speed and quality. I have 5000 kbps downloads and after some adjustments now see uploads in excess of 600 kbps regularly.
This is not a setup intended to compete with consumer products in price, although the most expensive equipment can be purchased for less than $2,000 and installed for about $500 or so. The two watt setup is priced around $1,250 with similar install costs.
The service ranges from a Small Office setup (500/128 kbps) to the Enterprise setup I have (5000/768 kbps). Monthly cost starts at $49.95 and tops out at $629.99. The service has no monthly limitation on usage; however, they do have the right to throttle you if you are an abusive customer. The nice thing about this approach is that for those who need to download an update to their operating system, the service will accomodate you without any throttling.
The satelllite used for this service is Intelsat's IA 8 which was launched last year and is state of the art ku band technology. The modem and uplink equipment is manufactured by ViaSat. This is the DOCSIS technology of packet handling which is proving itself to be a competitive, stable and dependable alternative to Digital Video Broadcast methods used by most of the ku band internet providers including iDirect.
For more information about this new product, contact Randy Scott at 1-866-978-4613 or email Randy
at randy@vsatus.com
The standard vsat internet setup is a 1.2 meter dish, the Surfbeam SM-1000 modem and either a two or four watt transmitter. I have tested both the 2 watt and 4 watt setup's and must say they are impressive. The speeds are dependable, pings are enterprise quality over 80% of the time and voip works flawlessly.
The 4 watt setup is downright enterprise speed and quality. I have 5000 kbps downloads and after some adjustments now see uploads in excess of 600 kbps regularly.
This is not a setup intended to compete with consumer products in price, although the most expensive equipment can be purchased for less than $2,000 and installed for about $500 or so. The two watt setup is priced around $1,250 with similar install costs.
The service ranges from a Small Office setup (500/128 kbps) to the Enterprise setup I have (5000/768 kbps). Monthly cost starts at $49.95 and tops out at $629.99. The service has no monthly limitation on usage; however, they do have the right to throttle you if you are an abusive customer. The nice thing about this approach is that for those who need to download an update to their operating system, the service will accomodate you without any throttling.
The satelllite used for this service is Intelsat's IA 8 which was launched last year and is state of the art ku band technology. The modem and uplink equipment is manufactured by ViaSat. This is the DOCSIS technology of packet handling which is proving itself to be a competitive, stable and dependable alternative to Digital Video Broadcast methods used by most of the ku band internet providers including iDirect.
For more information about this new product, contact Randy Scott at 1-866-978-4613 or email Randy
at randy@vsatus.com
posted by Randy Scott at 12:10 PM
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