Abstract :
EUTELSAT recognised that for the telecommunications applications of the eighties and nineties, a system offering direct user-to-user access would be required. The EUTELSAT Satellite Multiservices System (EUTELSAT SMS) was therefore developed to support a range of digital telecommunications services, including point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and VSAT networks. more than 320 full-time SMS networks are in operation, ranging from simple point-to-point links to fully-interactive hubbed or meshed VSAT networks. Antenna sizes range from 50 cm to more than 10 m, and data rates from 9.6 kbit/s to more than 2 Mbit/s. Applications span a range of business sectors, including videoconferencing, telephony, remote printing, financial data distribution, computer-to-computer interconnection, and digital video/audio distribution
Keywords :
VSAT networks; business communication; digital radio; 50 cm to 10 m; 9 kbit/s to 2 Mbit/s; EUTELSAT SMS; European VSAT market; Satellite Multiservices System; VSAT networks; business sectors; computer-to-computer interconnection; digital telecommunications services; digital video/audio distribution; direct user-to-user acces; financial data distribution; point-to-multipoint networks; point-to-point networks; remote printing; telecommunications applications; telephony; videoconferencing;
