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How satellite internet works. Satellite Internet generally relies on three primary components: a satellite – historically in geostationary orbit (or GEO) but now increasingly in Low Earth orbit (LEO) or Medium Earth orbit MEO) [24] – a number of ground stations known as gateways that relay Internet data to and from the satellite via radio waves (), and further ground stations to serve each ...
Satellite phones provide similar functionality to terrestrial mobile telephones; voice calling, text messaging, and low-bandwidth Internet access are supported through most systems. The advantage of a satellite phone is that it can be used in such regions where local terrestrial communication infrastructures, such as landline and cellular ...
Hot Bird (also styled Hotbird [1]) is a group of satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13°E over the equator (orbital position) and with a transmitting footprint over Asia, Europe, North Africa, Americas and the Middle East.
RTS Svet (Serbian Cyrillic: РТС Свет, or RTS World (Serbian: РТС Свет / RTS Svet); Satellite program of RTS (Сателитски програм РТС-а / Satelitski program RTS-a)), formerly RTS Sat, is a Serbian satellite television channel. [1] It is operated by Radio Television of Serbia (RTS). [2]
MyBroadband offers a speed test web service that provides a free analysis on Internet performance metrics, such as connection data rate and latency. [7] MyBroadband has test servers based in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. The speed test service was launched in 2011 for web browsers, and was based on Flash technology at the time.
Speedtest.net, also known as Speedtest by Ookla, is a web service that provides free analysis of Internet access performance metrics, such as connection data rate and latency. It is the flagship product of Ookla, a web testing and network diagnostics company founded in 2006, and based in Seattle, Washington , United States .
5G Cell Tower in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Internet in South Africa, one of the most technologically resourced countries on the African continent, is expanding.The internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) [1].za is regulated by the .za Domain Name Authority (.ZADNA) and was granted to South Africa by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 1990.
Spot-5 Satellite Athens as seen by the SPOT 5 satellite in 2002. SPOT (French: Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre, [1] lit. "Satellite for observation of Earth") is a commercial high-resolution optical Earth imaging satellite system operating from space.