Comsat Max launches cost effective broadband VSATs

Rahul Gupta

MUMBAI: Comsat Max, a VSAT service provider, will now provide broadband

Internet access to its customers through its newly launched digital video

broadband (DVB) VSATs 'Skyblaster'. The company has launched this DVB service in

India through its Israel based technology partner Gilat.

Comsat Max general manager, sales and marketing, Joyjit Chatterji said,

"Internet traffic pattern differs from the normal application traffic by

multitude responses and huge downloads, VSAT by feature offer huge and easy

downloads to all the sites irrespective of geographic location. CMAX being a

Class A ISP and with its own gateways spread across India is able to offer this

DVB service with huge out route speed."

A 100 MB file on a 64K leased line contention bandwidth will take typically

31/2 hours to download while the same file on a Skyblaster 360 E DVB will take

about seven minutes, he added.

The company is offering this service in less than Rs 1.5 lakh for out route

speed in the range of 52 Mbps while other service providers are providing this

service with 64Kbps in Rs 2.5 lakh. Skyblaster has some prominent features which

include HTTP traffic acceleration and optimization for satellite links, Caching

technologies, Service Quality, Multimedia streaming applications (Voice &

Video) and IP Multicast applications

The company has deployed these VSAT's in organizations like ITC, Amtrex and

Sriram. Comsat Max is the only service provider in India with two VSAT hubs in

Delhi and Mumbai.

SkyBlaster VSAT is a communication network designed for bi-directional

traffic that includes interactive transactions, batch file transfers, and

broadcast communications. The star topology of a SkyBlaster network is well

suited for use in configurations where headquarters or data centers communicate

with hundreds or thousands of geographically dispersed locations. The SkyBlaster

network supports a variety of data applications over TCP/IP and over a DVB

outbound, providing central host-to-remote terminal and remote

terminal-to-remote terminal connectivity.