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Tooway "Low cost European Satellite Internet access service" |
This new European Ka band satellite internet access service is being called Tooway and is a service provided by Eutelsat via their teleport operator agent Skylogic in Italy. It will help make use of the Ka band transponder payload capacity on the Hotbird 6 satellite at 13 deg east longitude and is intended to provide a cost effective solution to the problem of providing satellite internet access for people in remote areas who cannot get ADSL or cable broadband. The service will be very similar to Wildblue/Telesat service that has been provided in the US and Canada for several years with great success.
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Tooway is intended to provide satellite internet access for domestic and small business customers in remote locations in Europe within the beam coverages shown. The downlink is a single broad beam covering Europe. The uplink comprises several smaller Ka band spot beams to obtain higher uplink G/T and thus permit lower transmit eirp from the small earth stations.
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Advanced coding/modulation and dynamic rain fade mitigation techniques are used to minimise outages during heavy rain. The return links and capacity are dynamically assigned to make best use of the satellite capacity available. A variety of peak speeds are offered with corresponding tariffs. The system incorporates an integrated performance enhancing proxy (PEP) with pre-fetch to speed up browsing and downloads.
Ka band frequency plan on HotBird 6 satellite showing downlink transponder and
uplink spot beam transponders.
Note the beacon frequency is 19701 MHz, Horizontal nominal polarisation.
It is not known if this 'Horizontal' is in fact parallel with the equator or
tilted 3.5 deg.
It is a pity that Eutelsat are not using circular polarisation (as used for Wildblue) as that would have made a big difference to the mass market installation problem by eliminating the need for skilled installers. Tooway satellite installers wanted.
| The Tooway satellite service is also planned for Ku band operation on Eurobird 3 satellite with this composite downlink coverage pattern, which is made up of 5 Ku band spot beams: |
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For dish pointing for these satellites go to Satellite dish pointing UK Germany Spain France Algeria Greece Italia
Back for Tooway satellite discussion forum. European VSAT satellite service providers European resellers are Swisscom and Bentley Walker and El Molino
Other relevant links: Skylogic Tooway brochure 5.4 Mbytes pdf file Eutelsat/ViaSat press release 46 kbytes pdf file.
Page started 31 Jan 2008
Page last amended 12 March 2008
