Flexible Broadband SystemHigh-Capacity Broadband Satellite System for Any Market

FLEXIBLE BROADBAND SYSTEM ADVANTAGES

The Flexible Broadband System enables fast and cost-effective satellite broadband services for regional service providers. The unique system offers an easy entry point to high-capacity satellite networking with scalability to match business growth in any market.

ViaSat innovations first introduced with ViaSat-1 and ViaSat-2 satellites and ground systems enable a wide range of consumer, enterprise, and government broadband services at a much lower cost per subscriber.

Service Delivery Platform Enables Fast Rollout of Consumer, Enterprise, and Government ServicesContinuous advances in internet applications force service providers to be agile and quickly adapt to shifts in demand. The Flexible Broadband System features a Service Delivery Platform that eases the provisioning of fixed, portable, and mobile services through well-defined interfaces. The platform enhances web performance and enables service plan customization while optimizing satellite bandwidth. Satellite capacity can be assigned on a system-wide class-of-service basis giving higher priority services, such as real-time voice or video, higher bandwidth without affecting lower priority traffic such as email or web surfing.

A major benefit of the Service Delivery Platform is the ability to deliver an excellent customer experience for residential and business applications such as media-rich websites, internet video, large file transfers and media downloads, content distribution and contribution, and quality VoIP.

ViaSat Network ServicesWhile the demand for data is growing dramatically, revenues are not growing at the same rate. Service provider profitability is heavily dependent on the cost of delivering broadband services. In this environment, asset-light service providers who employ scalable, better-integrated, pervasive, and affordable access technologies will thrive. ViaSat Network Services utilize the cloud-based software platform to provide a turnkey managed service. Private cloud resources can be hosted in ViaSat-operated facilities or customer-provided data centers.

Using our Network Services, providers looking for growth can introduce premium connectivity services to application/content providers or expand their markets via selective verticals such as smart grids or e-health.

Affordable Integrated High-Capacity Satellite System ViaSat is the innovator behind the world’s highest capacity satellites and now we’re enabling service providers to optimize their businesses and accelerate the worldwide deployment of high-speed broadband services with the ViaSat-2 Lite class of satellite.

Collaborating with Boeing Satellite Systems, we’ve adapted our patented high-capacity payload technology to the cost-effective Boeing 702SP satellite bus. Combined with a new flexible networking ground system, these powerful innovations deliver unprecedented flexibility and bandwidth economics.

With this system, service providers acquire low cost capacity, broad coverage, and the ability to dynamically shift capacity where it’s needed, when it’s needed within the expansive satellite footprint. This flexibility reduces market risk and addresses future bandwidth needs with an affordable, scalable architecture. The ViaSat-2 Lite satellite is a compact high-capacity satellite design with a price point ideal for regional operators.

Achieving the speed, capacity, scale, and economic advantage of the ViaSat-2 class satellites requires a sophisticated, tightly integrated ground infrastructure. ViaSat has developed compact Satellite Access Nodes to shrink the size of a satellite gateway, simplifying deployment and operation while reducing both upfront and ongoing costs.

Terminals and Chipsets with Reference Designs to Meet Market NeedsA wide range of terminals are available to maximize performance for high-volume consumer, discriminating enterprise, and demanding government applications. To encourage further market innovations, ViaSat is introducing a Satellite Terminal Reference Design, enabling 3rd parties to develop and locally manufacture terminals to meet unique service applications.

Flexible Broadband System

FLEXIBLE BROADBAND SYSTEM AT-A-GLANCEFeatures and Benefi ts » Affordable high-capacity satellite system » Broad geographic coverage with flexibility to match demand » Fully integrated ground network with efficient forward and return links

» Scalable, modular, and compact Satellite Access Node (SAN) architecture

» Multiple remote terminal types for fixed, portable, and mobile applications

» Available terminal reference design » Scalable, cloud-based Service Delivery Platform » ViaSat Network Services supported through our Global Network Operations Center (NOC)

» Roadmap to integrate existing Ku-band and Ka-band gateways into the Service Delivery Platform

End User Applications » High-speed internet web browsing » Real-time video streaming and downloads » IP-based voice and video » Layer 2 for enterprise applications » Multicast media and content delivery

Service Provider Capabilities » Central operation of multiple satellite access nodes and satellites

» APIs to access underlying network and management capabilities, and simplify points of integration

» Wholesale and retail service model support » Support fixed-rate and metered service plans » Web portals for installers and Virtual Network Operators (VNOs)

FLEXIBLE BROADBAND SYSTEM DIAGRAM

Service ProviderData Center

ServiceProvider

NOC

ViaSat-2SAN

ViaSat-2SAN

ViaSat-2 LiteSAN

ViaSat-2 LiteHigh-Capacity

Satellite

KaGateway

End User Terminals

ViaSat-1Gateway

KuGateway

ViaSatGlobalNOC

INTERNET

SERVICE DELIVERY PLATFORM» Operational Support» Network Management» Network Access» Network Optimization

ViaSat-2 LiteHigh-Capacity

Satellite

Flexible Capacity

SYSTEM COMPONENTS

ViaSat-2 Lite Satellite—In Geostationary OrbitThe ViaSat-2 satellite, our 3rd generation high-capacity satellite, introduced the concept of flexible capacity, breaking the paradigm that requires a tradeoff between broad coverage and high throughput. This technology is now available with the affordable ViaSat-2 Lite class of satellites, which together with the Flexible Broadband System, achieve large-satellite bandwidth economics with a smaller financial commitment. The combined system allows operators to optimize their business by focusing capacity where the demand is, even if that demand changes over time.

ViaSat’s collaboration with Boeing Satellite Systems adapts the ViaSat-2 flexible payload to the all-electric Boeing 702SP platform, bringing the benefits of the ViaSat-2 class technology to a smaller, affordable package, available for rapid delivery. 

Features of the ViaSat-2 Lite class include: » High-capacity, flexible Ka-band payload

» Proven design and technology

» Capital-efficiency—in space and on the ground

» All electric propulsion reduces launch mass and cost

» Compatible with a dual-launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9

» 15 year Orbital Maneuvering Life

Satellite Access Node—At Fiber sitesEach Satellite Access Node (SAN) connects a collection of user terminals through the satellite to the Service Delivery Platform. 

The SAN includes a compact Ka-band satellite antenna and all elements needed to transmit and receive signals to and from the satellite.  Each SAN can process up to 4 GHz of satellite bandwidth. Powerful, yet small and compact, the SAN’s footprint is about the same as a cellular tower (typically 60m2).

Designed for unattended operation and easy repair, the SAN features an integrated management system that can send timely and accurate maintenance requests directly to the service technician’s smart phone when incidents occur.  Most equipment is serviceable from ground level; the remainder can be safely accessed using warehouse-style 2-meter rolling staircases.

The SAN is designed to operate across a range of climates including deserts, jungles, and extreme cold temperatures.  Options, including de-icing systems, are available to meet local requirements.

Satellite Broadband Terminals—At the Customer PremisesThe Flexible Broadband System creates opportunities for operators to serve consumer, enterprise, and government users. A family of ViaSat satellite broadband terminals is available for fixed, portable, and mobile applications. With embedded transparent acceleration technology and standard adaptable network interfaces, these terminals deliver the best user experience across a variety of services and are designed for quick and easy installation and efficient customer support. With ViaSat broadband terminals:  » Internet service providers can overtake the competition in delivering promised speeds

» Live event operators can provision sufficient capacity to supply thousands of spectators, vendors, sponsors, broadcasters and organizers with HD video streaming and high-speed internet access simultaneously, at virtually any location

» Airlines can offer the fastest in-flight internet with the ability to deliver a guaranteed service level to everyone onboard, encouraging higher passenger take rates and engagement

» Enterprises can enjoy portable broadband access virtually anywhere with multiple simultaneous internet connections

Complementing our family of broadband terminals, ViaSat is for the first time introducing Satellite Terminal Reference Designs comprising a suite of chipsets, terminal modules and software licenses. The reference designs allow customization of the customer premises equipment, even hosting 3rd party applications. Terminals can be designed and produced to create unique new service offers or improve business prospects via local manufacturing.

SATELLITE ACCESS NODE

VIASAT-2 LITE

PORTABLE TERMINAL

RESIDENTIAL TERMINAL

AERO MOBILE TERMINAL

USER TERMINAL CHIPSET

Flexible Broadband System

SERVICE DELIVERY PLATFORM AND VIASAT NETWORK SERVICESThe Service Delivery Platform gives service providers and network operators a competitive edge through faster introduction of new services and simplified network operations. ViaSat can provide a turnkey managed service or customize the service around customer provided data centers or private clouds.

Network Access and OptimizationNetwork Access and Optimization services provide real-time delivery of traffic to the SAN for last-mile satellite delivery, are designed to operate across multiple SANs, and support dynamic allocation of capacity within the satellite footprint. Network routing and security enforces traffic security and routes all management, control, and user data traffic to target network destinations.

The Network Access layer manages and controls traffic between end users and system routers and servers. It performs all power and frequency management for forward and return links, and manages satellite bandwidth resources. An Access Service Network (ASN) controller interacts with a network AAA for authenticating and authorizing user access and relaying quality of service (QoS) information.

The Network Optimization layer significantly improves throughput and end-user performance for HTTP- and TCP-based applications. QoS policies ensure appropriate allocation of network resources between high-priority and lower-priority users and applications. Equitable allocation is ensured between entities with the same priority. This, together with other congestion mitigation techniques, reduces congestion risk and users benefit from a better experience.

Interface to Satellite Access Nodes (SANs)

Operations Support

Network Management& Orchestration

APIs

ServiceProvider

EnterpriseServices

GovernmentServices

ConsumerServices

Network Optimization

Network Access

Service Delivery Platform

KEY SERVICE DELIVERY PLATFORM BENEFITS » Rapid creation, deployment, and management of new services

» Improved customer experience through streamlined service delivery and better service visibility

» Abstraction from underlying system complexity enables service provider to focus on key markets and customers

» APIs provide access to the network and management capabilities, and simplify points of integration

CONTACT

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Network Management and Operations Support SystemsNetwork Management services provide a sophisticated suite of tools for effective customer care and service/network management. The services adapt to changes in network topologies, equipment, and software designed to support the Flexible Broadband System. Routine tasks are automated and provide instant visibility into status, performance, configuration, and security. A secure web services API enables external access to these systems by VNOs, resellers, and installers, while maintaining strict data segregation and fine-grained authorization across any shared components. Open portal interfaces ease development of custom graphical interfaces and at the same time provide access to a rich set of standard UI functionality. The NMS supports network-wide configuration management, access security, fault management, and performance monitoring. Operations Support Systems support service fulfillment, service assurance, and generate rated records for billing by service providers. A B2B services interface facilitates order management, terminal management, and network-level diagnostics. An installer portal simplifies the installation process for field agents. A policy engine allows specification of both business and network policies. The APIs provide ease of use to service partners, VNOs and value-added application providers and simplifies network operations.