Telesat Canada will launch Anik F2 | in 2004, Canada's first
satellite to provide full two-way point-to-point Internet and
multimedia services. Broadband via SatelliteSatellite broadband
connection has become an important technology option for
national businesses, rural communities, and even for small and
home rural offices. New technology on the horizon will soon make
satellite a competitive option specifically for urban end users.
... Here's what you should know today. What is satellite
communication? Satellite communication is a form of wireless
communication. With wireless technology, information is
transferred between two antennas, encoded into radio signals at
one end and decoded into data at the other. Terrestrial or
ground based wireless requires many hops between a series of
communication towers in order for the signal to travel even 100
km. Satellite wireless communications requires only one hop,
from the base station to the satellite and back down to the
signal destination. Coverage: an enormous ar