PolarSat’s Mesh Networking Product

VSATPlus 3 ®

“The flexible,
powerful satellite
mesh networking
solution”

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 Markets Served

Private Networks Carriers

• Governmental Multi-Media Trunking
• Aviation
PTTs
• Petroleum Telephone Companies
• Construction Private Carriers
• Mining Emerging Service Providers
• Manufacturing Niche Service Providers
• Retail
• Banking
• Military
• Disaster Relief
• Backup

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 Typical Applications

• Typical Service Applications

– Disaster Recovery
– Corporate Networks
– Telemedicine
– Distance Learning
– Oil and Gas
– Non-Governmental Organizations
• Typical User Applications
– Voice over IP
– LAN-to LAN Interconnect
• Intranet/Extranet
• Client Server
– Video Teleconference over IP
– Internet

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 Heritage
Spar
CT-2000-002
Comtel
Spar
CT-2000-001
CT-2100

VSATPlus 3
Introduced:1981
• 4th generation TDMA terminal Customers: 2

PolarSat Introduced:1986
Introduced:1989
Customers: 10
•About 50% the total delivered number Customers: >25

of MF-TDMA terminals
Spar/ComStream
PolarSat/NSI VSATPlus
by SPA
R

VSATPlus II
PolarSat
VSATPlus 3

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l us
VSAT
VSAT
lus II

Introduced:1992
Introduced:2008 Customers: >25
Introduced:1996
Terminals:>4000

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VSATPlus 3 - Typical Applications

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 VSATPlus 3 - Features and Benefits
VSATPlus 3 Features User Benefits

• Decentralized Architecture • No Single Point of Failure

• No Hub

• Direct IP interface • Multi-Service support

• Seamless integration into users existing network
• IP Protocol Enhancements • Improved application performance over satellite

• Star/Mesh Topologies • Single Hop connectivity between all sites

• Bandwidth on Demand (BoD) • Space and ground segment savings

• Turbo Coding • Lower operational cost

• Proven Network Technology • Reliable operations for large networks

• Frequency hopping (FHOP) • Network growth without impact to existing sites

• Bandwidth available to all sites on any carrier
• Uplink power control • Space segment savings
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 Network Topology Options
• VSATPlus 3 supports all these Topologies

Mesh Star/Mesh Star

Typical Application Topologies

Voice Region Data Distribution

Video Teleconferencing Headquarters Internet access
Client Server Mixed Services Independent operation
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 SatelliteTDMA
Access Method
Concept

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 Frequency Hopping (FHOP) on TX and RX
• Benefit
– Less costly network growth
– Remote site can access ANY available network bandwidth

WITHOUT TX and RX FHOP

Becomes a One Carrier System

•Network Capacity = Node capacity 1x

•To expand network capacity must
change existing RF and/or Antenna

WITH TX and RX FHOP

Up to 32 Satellite Carriers
•Network Capacity 32x
•Expansion without changing existing sites
RF or Antenna
•All Carriers acts as a bandwidth pool that
any site can access on demand
FREQHOPP

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 TDMA/BoD with Frequency Hopping

•Total network bandwidth is a Pool

•Each terminal can access any available
Typical Satellite Transponder bandwidth on any carrier on up to 32 carriers
•To add network capacity just add another
carrier
Frequency
VoIP
Frequency #N

VoIP LAN-to-LAN Videoconference

Time
Frequency #2
VoIP LAN-to-LAN Videoconference
Frequency #1

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 Network Features

• Overview
– Unified platform for multimedia applications
– Full mesh, single hop connectivity to all sites
– Integrated Protocol Enhancements
– Multilevel Quality of Service
– IP Packet Fragment and Reassemble for consistent delay
– Shared bandwidth on the satellite which can be used on an as-
needed basis by any/all sites in the network
– “LAN in the Sky”
– Connects to standard routers
– Ideal for service providers as VPNs can be created within the
network
– Scalability - the network can start small and be grown through
addition of nodes and/or satellite bandwidth

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 Satellite Challenges and Solutions

Satellite Challenge PolarSat Solution

Congestion Intelligent Queuing

Delay and Delay Jitter IP Precedence
Packet Resiliency Interleaving
Slow link Freeze-out by Large Packets Packet fragmentation
WAN Bandwidth on Demand
Oversubscription, Bursting Bandwidth on Demand (CIR and EIR),
Bandwidth Consumption Compression
Header and Payload Size TCP Header and Payload Compression

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 Bandwidth on Demand (BoD)

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 Bandwidth on Demand
• Dynamic Bandwidth on Demand
– Bandwidth rules (CIR, EIR) are defined by Operator
– Bandwidth is allocated on any carrier (both transmit/receive) network wide
– Supports user configurable Permanently Assigned Bandwidth in addition to
BoD The BoD server resides in the Primary reference node
• Bandwidth is allocated in client server model
– Remote stations are the client and send regular statistics about bandwidth
usage to the BoD server
– The BoD server responds by allocating more or less bandwidth to the
remote
• BoD Server
– No special hardware or cost for BoD Server.
• Any VSATPlus 3 can be the BoD Server
– In the event of failure of the primary then it automatically switches to the
secondary node
• Bandwidth is allocated based upon a remote terminals Commited
Information Rate (CIR) and Excess Information Rate (EIR) settings
– The terminal will get bandwidth if it is available and it can get addition
bandwidth up to a maximum rate or CIR+EIR

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 Integrated IP transport

VSATPlus 3 supports integrated services over a single IP interface

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 IP - Key Features
• Protocol Performance Enhancements
– QoS
• 8 levels of definable QoS
• IP Type of Service (ToS) bits are utilized for QoS mapping
• Fragmentation and Reassembly of packets for consistent delay
• Specific IP address can be utilized in addition to ToS
– e.g. Increasing VoIP gateway signaling traffic priority
– TCP Acceleration (PEP) (Option)
• TCP compatible – easier to deploy
• Fast start for quick connection setup
• TCP Payload compression
• Built in IP routing
– VSATPlus 3 provides built in routing of IP packets
– Each terminal supports multiple subnets

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 Terminal Features

• Supports hopping on up 32 carriers

– Transmit and receive
• Data rates from 338KBPS to 6.66MBPS
– Software definable
• Scalable Network size
– Network architecture supported a 1000 node full mesh network
• Requires no external timing source
– No GPS or Atomic Clock
• Integrated uplink power control
• IF interface
– 70MHz
– L-Band
• Supplies 10MHz
• External 24 VDC power can be run up the cable to the ODU
• 10/100BaseT Ethernet user interface
• 1 Rack Unit
• Input voltage 110-220 auto ranging

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 IP Interface Description

• One User Port Per Terminal (100BaseT)

– RJ-45
• IP Address support
– ARP and RARP
– User setting of multiple static IP addresses
• Routing
– Multiple simultaneous connections to all nodes in the network
– Subnet routing and masking
• QoS
– 8 levels of traffic priority
– TOS or DiffServ mapping to QoS levels
– CIR, EIR definitions on a per Node basis
• Throughput
– Up to 10Mbps

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 VoIP Telephony Features

• Voice Support
– Prioritization of VoIP traffic for low delay and
fragmentation of large packets for low delay
variance
• No impact to existing calls due to other traffic
PABX
(e.g. file transfers)
– Dynamic allocation of bandwidth on a call by call
basis
– Dynamic routing of calls to any destination
• true full mesh Voice

– Routing and Prioritization of call set up and

teardown messages to Call Gateway
• Support for SIP had H.323 call setup
Fax
– Works with standard off-the-self VoIP equipment
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 Web based User Interface

• Web based user interface

• Remote access from
Anywhere
• No special NMS platform
• No extra cost
• Monitoring and Control

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 VSATPlus 3 Ease of Use

The VSATPlus 3 is easy to use

– Setup a node by setting its parameters
• Satellite parameters: Location, Carrier frequencies
• Node parameter: Node #, IP address, CIR/EIR, Primary/Secondary
– Joins the network and downloads key info from the Server
• Node then comes into net
• Automatically synchronizes with the Primary reference
• Then downloads information from the Server
– Node is then One-line it is in the network
• Once a node is on-line bandwidth is then dynamically allocated based upon
traffic rules
• Traffic is routed automatically based upon Routing
• All nodes are automatically updated on the new routing destination
– Monitoring
• The user can monitor and control the network via the web based user
interface
– Adding bandwidth to the network
• Just add a new carrier at the server and all nodes are updated and then can
access this new bandwidth

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 Systems and services

• Integration of Products and Services

R&D

Maintenance Manufacturing
& After-Sale (In-House &
Support Outsource)

Network
Training
Design

Program Finance
Management
Installation

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 VSATPlus 3 “Claim to Fame”
Full-Mesh
Voice Video and Data
Connectivity Among
Field-Proven All Stations Bandwidth on
Networking Demand Capability
Technology to Minimize Space
Segment Costs

Frequency
Hopping on Up to Low Equipment
32 Carriers for Cost and operation
Seamless Growth

Integrated IP No Hub Required:

Acceleration Delivers High
and QoS functionality Availability for a
Low Cost
Fully Automatic High Network
Unmanned Throughput
Operation

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