NSTT Sky Performer software option for its Net Performer access-device family, offers integrated voice and data via satellite anywhere in the world.
Sky Performer is targeted at the satellite service providers around the world that are providing enterprise network solutions for voice and data, as well as carriers that offer frame relay and wish to extend their services to locations not well suited to terrestrial-based communications.
According to the premier VSAT Industry Report - The COMSYS Report, SCPC technology is the highest-margin business for these satellite service providers.
The reasons for this are simple:
- Point-Point/SCPC technology is very straightforward and easy to implement—just like Sky Performer.
- The satellite carriers are fixed, and sizing the necessary satellite resources is very straightforward—just like Sky Performer.
- SCPC technology is inherently simple and doesn't require complex and expensive TDMA and DAMA satellite bandwidth control software—just like Sky Performer.
- The simplicity of SCPC technology and the fact that the customer is getting his own dedicated satellite bandwidth is very easy to explain and justify to the customer—just like Sky Performer.
- This last fact cannot be over emphasized. Unlike TDMA and DAMA technologies, with SCPC the customer doesn't have to share his bandwidth with other customers.
- Therefore, the customer can be assured of high-quality voice and data communications since the network resources are 100% dedicated to its needs.
- Although Sky Performer is an SCPC-based product, it is designed with the "broadcast nature" of satellite in mind. This is not the case with standard point-to-point/SCPC technology. Let's take a closer look at how
- Sky Performer compares to standard point-to-point/SCPC technology and why Sky Performer is a "better way" to implement small to medium size voice and data networks.
Point-to-Point/SCPC Technology
If there were a requirement to support voice and data in a classic point "A" to point "B" network—from one city to another, for example—point-to-point/SCPC technology would typically be used. In this scenario, a standard data/voice multiplexer would be connected to a standard, off-the-shelf SCPC satellite modem for each end of the circuit. This is a very simple and inexpensive approach for point-to-point voice and data networks and is used extensively. Unfortunately, however, this approach cannot adequately handle multi-point networks, which is where Sky Performer excels. What are some of the problems with point-to-point/SCPC technology?
SCPC Requires more Hardware
The point-to-point/SCPC approach is often used to build small point-to-multi-point star networks. For example, if there were a central site that needed to communicate with six remote locations, it would be necessary to put a muxtiplexer and SCPC satellite modem pair at each end of the six links. At the central site there would be one multiplexer and six satellite modems. If a seventh location were to be added, an additional satellite modem would have to be added to the central site. This is a very cumbersome and costly approach to building small to medium size networks. such an approach requires a lot of hardware at the central site.
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