Detailed Intelsat 12 Ku band satellite beam map for the Middle East.

Southern Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Jordan.

Use this high power Ku band spot beam satellite map to determine feasibility of operation, considering exact location of your VSAT terminal. 

Typical dish sizes are  89cm or 1.2m diameter.  In the extreme outer contours 1.8 or 2.4m diameter dishes will be required.
Small, semi-transportable,  89cm antennas may be used in the inner areas.
Any bit rate is possible from 2.4kbit/s to 10 Mbit/s using CDM570L modems.  Space segment price is approx $700 per month per dedicated 100kbit/s and pro rata.

A typical network configuration comprises:  Downlink 1024 kbit/s shared into 4 VSAT sites, each VSAT site has 64k dedicated uplink. Each site has up to 20 PCs and 2 VoIP phones.  Total capacity = 1280 kbit/s at $8960 per month or $2240 per site. 

Connection to the terrestrial internet backbone is via Global Teleports Vipersat hub at Brookmans Park, London, UK.

Intelsat 12 Ku band spot beam for the Middle East - Horizontal polarisation down.

The Intelsat 12 satellite is at 45 deg East longitude.

Go here for dish pointing angles in the Middle East area.

Larger dish sizes are always preferred if practically possible, as they will provide better link margins and allow advanced high efficiency modulation schemes to work, which may reduce monthly costs by 2/3rd in the case of 8-PSK/QAM or 1/2 in the case of 16-QAM modulation methods.

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