Satellite Broadband

Satellite broadband refers to the provision of high-speed Internet access using communications satellites to deliver data connectivity to fixed or mobile users. It is used to serve customers in remote, rural, maritime, aeronautical, or otherwise underserved areas where terrestrial broadband infrastructure such as fiber, cable, or cellular networks is unavailable or impractical.

Satellite broadband services are delivered using geostationary or non-geostationary satellite systems and typically employ higher frequency bands, such as Ku-band and Ka-band, together with multibeam and frequency-reuse techniques to achieve high aggregate capacity. While satellite broadband can provide wide-area coverage and rapid deployment, performance may be affected by propagation delay, atmospheric attenuation, and, in the case of mobile services, limitations on user antenna size.