Nearly three billion people living in rural areas today are still without basic telephone service. Satellite-based networks are often the simplest and most economical solution for quickly implementing communication infrastructures to link these areas to the rest of the world. Today's low-cost Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) technologies can make these satellite networks possible. This case study describes various VSAT-based network architectures and how these can serve the needs of rural telephony operators.
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