Performance, Power, Unique Capabilities: SPACEWAY
Our new SPACEWAY™ platform represents the largest step forward in the history of satellite communications. This new satellite broadband platform will form the basis for the next generation of our HughesNet&trade service. HNS will launch SPACEWAY over North America in mid 2007.
What is SPACEWAY?
SPACEWAY is a next-generation satellite system, whose unique capabilities will enable high-speed data networking, enable groundbreaking applications, and unlock a wealth of value-added HughesNet services. Operating in globally assigned Ka-band spectrum, SPACEWAY employs high-performance, onboard digital processing, packet switching and spot-beam technology to offer direct site-to-site connectivity at rates of from 512 Kbps up to 16 Mbps. SPACEWAY combines the traditional advantages of satellite, namely ubiquitous reach and efficient broadcast/multicast, with high data rates and mesh connectivity—to give customers a fast, efficient, flexible and cost-effective communications solution.
Advanced Technology
Through use of advanced multi-spot-beam antenna and onboard data processing technologies, SPACEWAY satellites are at the vanguard of the most advanced next-generation high-capacity Ka-band satellites. Such capabilities are the foundation for a host of advanced features such as full-mesh with single-hop connectivity between user terminals, service profiles and service measures in support of the emerging applications. Onboard processing also significantly enhances the performance of SPACEWAY by making it a complete end-to-end digital system. Digital systems deliver superior performance because at every point within the network, error correction keeps the signals clear.
SPACEWAY represents the most sophisticated advanced packet transmission infrastructure complete with IP-based user interfaces, satellite terminals, comprehensive network management and service management functionality, all optimized to provide end-to-end broadband access and network connectivity services.
