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Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT)
A very small aperture terminal (VSAT) is a two-way earth station that receives and transmits data, voice, and video signals via a satellite communication network (though not through broadcast television signals). Users of VSAT require a box that connects a computer and outside antenna with a transceiver that sends or receives a signal from a satellite transponder. The transponder sends/receives that signal from an earth station computer.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT)
An SMB might opt for a VSAT rather than relying on private companies in order to generate higher communication speeds than an ISDN (integrated services digital network) or telephone service provider.
Related terms
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Intranet
- SLO (Service-Level Objective)
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Scalability
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Data Center
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Synchronous
- Multitenancy
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- IT Services
- Authorization
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
