Satellite Internet has evolved. Dustyfoot has evolved.
The satellite television technology once referred to as “bird on a wire,” or BOW, has been perfected by satellite TV companies, and kits from satellite Internet companies help you access satellite TV.
But who’re you kidding? While the cloud is blurring the line between TV and the web, sure you could download TV shows on your satellite Internet, but now you’re into big money, downloading gigabytes of data. Unless IP video download is what your business is all about, you’d better install a TV dish next to your satellite Internet dish.
Pure business-grade satellite Internet access is a creature of a different feather. Serious IP warriors send and receive mission critical information with options such as committed information rate and metered billing.
Committed information rate, or CIR, guarantees that you get 110% of the promised minimum bandwidth 90% of the time. This lets you rest easy, and plan for data processing 24/7. If you’ve got SCADA devices that monitor and control remote stations that shoot information to your servers every hour, or you have remote surveillance of construction sites that alert you any time an intruder passes the camera, or you have teleconferences with colleagues around the globe to discuss engineering, medical procedures, or banking transactions, you need CIRs.
If you video stream customers daily, you may easily exceed your plan throughput. Residential-grade satellite Internet FAPs will keep you hampered, but business-grade satellite Internet lets you pay for any extra throughput without being throttled.
Of course, business-grade satellite Internet firms lets you choose FAP if you’re sure your one or one hundred satellite Internet connections won’t exceed plan. That’s just good planning on your part.
