++

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:

Reliability

Satellite networks provide unmatched reliability, with far fewer potential points of failure than terrestrial solutions and built-in redundancy at almost every level to limit service interruptions when problems do occur.

Terrestrial networks have multiple potential points of failure where outages can occur: construction projects digging up streets; falling trees taking down telephone poles; equipment failures at the local telephone central office, to name a few. And many times, terrestrial network providers may not be able to fix these outages without third-party carriers.

Satellite networks have just three potential points of failure, each with built-in redundancy and back-ups: the satellite, the hub and the VSAT. Satellite outages are exceedingly rare but, should one occur, it is usually possible to automatically reroute traffic to back-up transponders without impacting service.

In the even more remote case of total satellite failure - which has occurred just twice in the 30-plus years that satellites have been in commercial use - back-up capacity is available on dozens of satellites. At the hub, online redundant equipment is used to provide immediate switching for uninterrupted service in the event of equipment failure. And VSAT equipment has the longest mean-time-between-failure in the industry: about 10 years.