Retail sector taking plunge to satellite links

The power of wireless communications is being unleashed in corporate Canada. Telesat's Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) service (Anikom 200), offers two-way data, multimedia and one-way broadcast video communications between a company headquarters or data center and branch office sites, usin...

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Published in:Computing Canada 1997-09, p.19
Main Authors: Poulos, Brad, Montgomery, Linda
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Costs
Retail stores
Retailing industry
Satellite communications
Wide area networks
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Summary:The power of wireless communications is being unleashed in corporate Canada. Telesat's Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) service (Anikom 200), offers two-way data, multimedia and one-way broadcast video communications between a company headquarters or data center and branch office sites, using small, efficient satellite dishes at each location. The service provides interactive wide-area networks between a central host computer and geographically dispersed remote sites. Retail and service companies are some of the biggest satellite-based WAN users.
ISSN:0319-0161