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Key
Benefits of Satellite Communications
Small
businesses, schools, remote farms, NGOs, UN agencies,
Internet Service Providers, air traffic controllers,
financial services, banks, supermarkets and other enterprises
in Africa choose Alldean VSAT satellite networks for
a number of key reasons:
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Superior
Economics
Satellite
networks are much less costly to deploy, maintain and
operate than terrestrial network technologies. Terrestrial
networks require heavy infrastructure, whether they
are telephony networks (based on copper wiring, fiber
optic cables, radio or microwave towers), or data networks
(such as Frame Relay, DSL, ISDN and cable). High overhead
costs for these infrastructures are passed on to the
customer. In remote areas where such infrastructure
does not exist, the expense of building such networks
is often prohibitive, in developing and developed countries
alike.
The
economics of a satellite network are much simpler. The
individual VSAT units are relatively inexpensive and
can be quickly and easily installed by a field technician.
Hub and satellite costs are shared among thousands of
customer sites, so the per-site cost of equipment, maintenance
and management is low - and gets lower as more sites
are added to the network.
And
no terrestrial infrastructure development is ever needed.
In fact, VSATs - which are built for low power consumption
- can even run without electricity, using simple solar
panels.
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