Information Technology

VSAT Networks

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VSAT, now a well established acronym for Very Small Aperture Terminal, was initially a trademark for a small earth station mar- keted in the 1980s by Telcom General in the USA. Its success as a generic name probably comes from the appealing association of its first letter V, which establishes a ‘victorious’ context, or may be per- ceived as a friendly sign of participation, and SAT which definitely establishes some reference to satellite communications.
In this book, the use of the word ‘terminal’ which appears in the clarification of the acronym will be replaced by ‘earth station’, or station for short, which is the more common designation in the field of satellite communications for the equipment assembly allowing reception from or transmission to a satellite. The word terminal will be used to designate the end user equipment (telephone set, facsimile machine, television set, computer, etc.) which generates or accepts the traffic that is conveyed within VSAT networks. This complies with regulatory texts, such as those of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), where for instance equipment generating data traffic, such as computers, are named ‘Data Terminal Equipment’ (DTE).

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Series Title

VSAT Networks

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Publisher

USA : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2003

Collation

1-296

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-470-86684-5

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NONE

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Edition

2nd Edition

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Information Technology

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