Are you paying too muoh for your satellite service?

摘要

ENSURING EFFECTIVE SATELLITE communications for your oil rig does not come cheap. But how much you actually pay for your VSAT and use of satellite networks depends on a number of factors — for example, which of the available bands you use. In one of Africa's oil-producing regions, attenuation caused by monsoon-like conditions could be a problem for the Ku band and entirely rule out the higher frequency Ka band — at least for now. You may therefore require a deployment in the C band, further down the spectrum, which has less susceptibility to rain fade.