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WildBlue Communications, Inc. is a corporation based in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The company offers satellite broadband Internet services to both home and business customers. WildBlue is one of the newer satellite Internet services, having begun operating in June 2005. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
Greenwood Village is a city located in Arapahoe County, Colorado. ...
A Wild Blue Satellite Internet dish. ...
After nationwide beta testing, the first residential retail customers had WildBlue service installed at their home in June 2005. During the summer of 2005 a dealer network was established to provide installation and customer service to clients throughout the 48 contiguous United States.
WildBlue claims superior performance both in terms of upload and download speed through its use of newer satellite technology. Specifically, WildBlue uses the Ka band instead of the Ku band used by established competitors. For improved performance, it covers the U.S. and most of populated Canada with many "spot beams" instead of a single, broad beam covering the entire market. It has adopted DOCSIS technology to reduce costs while maintaining quality of service. The Ka band (kurz-above band) is a portion of the K band of the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum. ...
The Ku band (kay-yoo kurz-under band) is a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in the microwave range of frequencies ranging from 11 to 18 GHz. ...
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A spot beam, in telecommunications parlance, is a satellite signal that is specially concentrated in power (i. ...
Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) is an international standard developed by cablelabs and contributing companies that include: ARRIS, BigBand Networks, Broadcom, Cisco, Conexant, Correlant, Intel, Motorola, Netgear, Terayon, and Texas Instruments. ...
The maximum advertised transmission speed with the premium subscription is 1.5 megabits per second download and 256 kilobits per second upload. The satellite equipment costs approximately US$299, exclusive of the mandatory professional installation service. They have in place a Fair Access Policy that slows bandwidth to less than 150kbps if you reach predetermined bandwidth caps on usage. Internet service providers often implement a so-called Fair Access Policy to prevent users of a broadband connection to overuse bandwidth. ...
In late 2006, WildBlue modified their calculation of network activity. This change was intended to allow for more accurate measurement of data usage, but it appeared to more than double calculated usage, causing routine usage of some customers to unexpectedly exceed WildBlue's imposed 30-day usage limits. As a result, WildBlue ignored two weeks of data usage from November 27 through December 11, 2006. is the 331st day of the year (332nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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WildBlue uses the Ka-band exclusively for both the receiving end and the return path on two satellites using VSAT technology. The Ka band (kurz-above band) is a portion of the K band of the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum. ...
VSAT is short for Very Small Aperture Terminal. ...
Anik-F2 This Telesat Canada-owned Boeing 702 Anik-F2 satellite has a Ka-band payload designed for and leased by WildBlue. It has four spot beams for a total of 38 transponders in the Ka-band. It also has C-band and Ku-band payloads for other customers.[1] It is located at the 111.1° W, geostationary orbit slot.[2] The Anik satellites are geostationary communications satellites launched by Telesat Canada for television in Canada. ...
Geostationary orbit A geostationary orbit (GEO) is a geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earths equator (0° latitude), with orbital eccentricity of zero. ...
WildBlue-1 WildBlue-1 is a purpose-built satellite built for use by the WildBlue service exclusively. It has 35 spot beams in the Ka-band.[3]. WildBlue-1, was launched on December 8, 2006 at 22:07 GMT aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5. WildBlue-1 is an LS-1300 was built by Space Systems/Loral and occupies the 111.0° W slot.[4] WildBlue-1, while co-located with Anik-F2, requires subscribers to have separate accounts and different equipment than subscribers to Anik-F2. is the 342nd day of the year (343rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Founded in 1980, Arianespace SA undertakes the production, operation and marketing of the Ariane 4 and Ariane 5 rocket launchers as part of the Ariane programme. ...
Ariane 5 mock-up Ariane 5 is a European expendable launch system designed to deliver satellites into geostationary transfer orbit and to send payloads to Low Earth orbit. ...
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), of Palo Alto, California, is the wholly owned manufacturing subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications. ...
Equipment WildBlue uses a 28 × 26 in (508 × 660 mm) mini-dish and external satellite modem to bring their service to subscribers nearly anywhere in the 48 contiguous states. The modem connects to a PC's or Apple Macintosh's network card via 10BASE-T (RJ-45) cables, much in the way a cable or DSL modem would. The modem updates its firmware automatically. Special dish for up to 16 satellite positions (KU-band) Satellite dish antenna for C-Band A satellite dish is a type of parabolic antenna designed with the specific purpose of transmitting signals to and/or receiving from satellites. ...
For other uses, see Modem (disambiguation). ...
IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC, XT, or AT internal design, facilitated by various manufacturers...
The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ...
A network card, network adapter or NIC (network interface controller) is a piece of computer hardware designed to allow computers to communicate over a computer network. ...
10BASE-T cable 10BASE-T plug 10BASE-T is an implementation of Ethernet which allows stations to be attached via twisted pair cable. ...
Cat5 cables with RJ-45 connectors, wired to EIA/TIA-568B An RJ-45 connector that has yet to be crimped onto a cable RJ-45 (Registered Jack 45) is a physical interface often used for terminating twisted pair type cables. ...
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Subscribers' WildBlue mini-dish antenna. Image File history File links Sateliitesmall0bq. ...
| WildBlue satellite modem. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (403x676, 20 KB) Summary standard satellite modem from Wild Blue Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
| The back panel of a WildBlue satellite modem. The coaxial connections for incoming and outgoing signals can be seen, as well as the Ethernet port for the rest of the network. Image File history File linksMetadata WildBlueSatelliteModemBack. ...
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Competitors WildBlue competes with satellite Internet service providers Starband and Hughesnet. WildBlue distinguishes itself by exclusively using the Ka-band and a comparatively large amount of regionalized, high-power spot beams which both transmit and receive to more customers by re-using the same frequency ranges in different geographic regions. StarBand is a two-way satellite broadband Internet service available in the U.S.. StarBand Communications Inc. ...
HughesNet (formerly DirecWay) is the current brand name of the one-way and two-way satellite broadband Internet technology and service in U.S. and Europe owned by Hughes Network Systems. ...
A spot beam, in telecommunications parlance, is a satellite signal that is specially concentrated in power (i. ...
Real-time interactive applications sometimes perform poorly through WildBlue internet connections (or any satellite connection) because of the actual distance of 23,000 miles resulting in a .12 second latency between satellite and ground stations. This results in actual end-to-end latency of at least 650 milliseconds (ms) and more typically 900ms to 1200ms end-to-end latency, as measured by the "ping" utility. While web browsing can work fine with this level of latency, many online games and interactive network applications do not.
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