{"id":83859,"date":"2011-12-09T18:14:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T10:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-1-completes-first-link-with-wildblue-network-broadband-terminals\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T18:14:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T10:14:39","slug":"viasat-1-completes-first-link-with-wildblue-network-broadband-terminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-1-completes-first-link-with-wildblue-network-broadband-terminals\/","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat-1 Completes First Link with WildBlue Network, Broadband Terminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-09-11] <b>ViaSat<\/b> has transmitted the first data over its ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite and the high-speed data network of its subsidiary, <b>WildBlue<\/b>, the companies announced Dec. 7.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;According to ViaSat, the initial transmissions and receptions were completed Dec. 2 from a SurfBeam 2 terminal at the company\u2019s Carlsbad campus, as well through the ViaSat-1 satellite and a gateway located in Milford, Utah. The test included email, Web surfing and video streaming.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;ViaSat-1\u2019s in-orbit testing is on schedule for completion in mid-December. Once complete, the satellite\u2019s manufacturer <b>Space Systems\/Loral<\/b> will hand over operation of the 140 Gbps capacity satellite to ViaSat and its partner <b>Telesat<\/b>. ViaSat will then begin the final phase of integration with a network of 20 SurfBeam 2 ground stations that connect the satellite to the Internet backbone. ViaSat-1 commercial service is expected to begin prior to the end of 2011.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWe have advanced satellite technology to the point that satellite can now be a better alternative for broadband Internet than DSL, and 3G \/ 4G wireless offerings for fixed home use. [The satellite is] an enormous leap for satellite broadband technology,&#8221; ViaSat CEO Mark Dankberg said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-09-11] ViaSat has transmitted the first data over its ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite and the high-speed data network of its subsidiary, WildBlue, the companies announced Dec. 7. &nbsp; &nbsp;According to ViaSat, the initial transmissions and receptions were completed Dec. 2 from a SurfBeam 2 terminal at the company\u2019s Carlsbad campus, as well through the ViaSat-1 satellite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}