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Very Small Aperture Terminal Satellite Systems
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ALSO CALLED: VSAT
DEFINITION: VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) is a satellite communications system that serves home and business users. A VSAT end user needs a box that interfaces between the user's computer and an outside antenna with a transceiver. The tranceiver receives or sends a signal to a satellite
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VERY SMALL APERTURE TERMINAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS DEFINITION (continued):
transponder in the sky. The satellite sends and receives signals from an earth station computer that acts as a hub for the system. Each end user is interconnected with the hub station via the satellite in a star topology. For one end user to communicate with another, each transmission has to first go to the hub station which retransmits it via the satellite to the other end user's VSAT. VSAT handles data, voice, and video signals. VSAT is used both by home users who
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