Ground systems
What’s on the ground is as important — and innovative — as what’s in space.
The link from earth to sky
When a customer uses the Viasat network, the signal from their terminal travels to one of our satellites positioned 22,236 miles (35,786km) up in space. From there it’s beamed down to a ground station to be processed and delivered to its destination – whether that’s the internet, a landline or mobile phone, an office network, or another terminal. All in less than one second.
Our ground network of Satellite Access Nodes (SANs) is strategically placed around the world to maximize the capacity and availability our satellites — which, along with our high-speed, global software-defined network (SDN) and use of Networks Function Virtualization (NFV), helps us rapidly scale to meet the changing needs of our customers and our higher capacity satellite systems and network services