Ground Control’s SCPC Service (single channel per carrier) offers a true unshared dedicated channel with absolutely no restrictions. Sample circuit speeds are listed below.
Contact us for pricing and minimum hardware for your specific data rate requirements.
Dedicated SCPC iDirect Satellite Service on Galaxy 18 or SES-2
A leased line is often used by our SCPC customers. It’s an open unshared terrestrial channel between our satellite teleport and your organization’s primary network that doesn’t touch the public network. A leased line can be used for dedicated SCPC service, standard shared internet service, or hybrid service. Clients often use a leased line for increased security and to improve reliability and performance since the channel is open with no restrictions. Their cost depends on many factors, but a ‘high’ cost for a 1.5 Mbps data channel would be $1000 per month to most locations in the United States.
Our standard shared service to the internet uses a star topology TDM/MF-TDMA iDirect optimized network. Our standard services are global and have dynamic contention ratios for superior speed performance. Use our global map to locate service plans in any region.
A popular networking option that can cut the cost of an expensive high-speed dedicated SCPC channel is to combine a high-speed, low-cost shared service (for normal internet traffic) with a low-speed dedicated SCPC unshared channel for high-security data.
A point-to-point network consists of a satellite dish at one location connecting with a satellite dish (or dishes) at other locations that communicate through our satellite teleport. This topology avoids any terrestrial link costs (such as a leased line from an organization’s network to our teleport) making it a viable, low-cost private satellite network. While point-to-point avoids touching the public network, it will double the latency because data is required to travel twice to the orbiting satellite.
Many organizations choose to run a VPN over our standard shared iDirect service. However, not all VPN equipment will work well with the inherent latency of satellite. We recommend speaking with our sales engineers to determine your VPN compatibility.
Many of our clients employ VPNs or specialty applications running on their hardware co-located at our teleports found around the world. Locating a VPN router at the teleport can increase performance, since VPN traffic doesn’t travel over the satellite leg portion of the link. All of our co-location facilities are hardened, environmentally controlled, and fully protected against fires and other disasters. Below is information on our North American teleport in Napa California.
Our iDirect teleports for North America are state-of-the-art and used by several Fortune 500 companies for their private satellite infrastructures.
