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53-619: Viasat may refer to: Viasat (American company) (founded 1986) Viasat hack , a cyberattack on the Viasat KA-SAT network that happened in February 2022 Viasat (Nordic television service) (founded 1991) Viasat Cup , 2006 Danish football tournament Viasat Ukraine , a Ukrainian direct broadcast satellite television distributor Viasat World, operator of: Viasat Nature Viasat Explore Viasat History Viasat 1 ,

106-580: A 15-year operational life. ViaSat-1 cost $ 400 million to produce and launch. ViaSat-2 , which launched in June 2017, expands the capacity and coverage of the Viasat Internet service. Initially the satellite broadband internet was launched as a response to the lack of coverage provided by terrestrial services. The 12 Mbit/s service was faster than earlier satellite internet access options such as WildBlue which could reach 1.5 Mbit/s. In 2016,

159-560: A 25 Mbit/s download speed was introduced in some areas, as well as a new modem supporting the new speed tier that includes an integrated Wi-Fi router and VoIP adapter. In 2017, Viasat sunsetted the name Exede and rebranded as Viasat Internet. The internet service covers most of the continental U.S. and Hawaii . Between 2012 and 2015, the Federal Communications Commission has reported that Viasat's Exede Internet met or surpassed advertised speeds. In

212-522: A Ghanaian television channel Viasat 3 , a Hungarian TV channel Viasat 6 , a thematic television channel of Sony Pictures Television Networks See also [ edit ] ViaSat-1 , ViaSat-2 , and ViaSat-3 , satellites launched by the American company Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Viasat . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

265-561: A company focused on cloud networking software, in 2013. In 2014, Viasat partnered with Thuraya Telecommunications, a mobile satellite services operator, to provide machine to machine (M2M) services. The same year, Viasat entered a partnership with LightSquared to work on M2M services in vehicular and aviation devices. Viasat also teamed with Southern California Edison to provide an easy transition into operational networks. NetNearU based in Bryan/College Station, Texas

318-424: A computer or storage device is stolen. Eclypt drives are used by governments, military forces, and law enforcement agencies. Viasat Critical Infrastructure Security was introduced in 2013, designed to stop security breaches and monitor operation of grid networks using real-time intelligence. The process adds encrypted sensors to the critical national infrastructure networks and monitors all abnormal activity through

371-594: A fixed-size 32-bit address in the final version of IPv4 . This remains the dominant internetworking protocol in use in the Internet Layer ; the number 4 identifies the protocol version, carried in every IP datagram. IPv4 is defined in RFC   791 (1981). Version number 5 was used by the Internet Stream Protocol , an experimental streaming protocol that was not adopted. The successor to IPv4

424-477: A high-capacity three satellite constellation, is expected to launch first satellite in 2020. In December 2020, Viasat acquired RigNet, a secure managed networking solutions and specialized applications developer. RigNet will be incorporated into Viasat's Global Enterprise and Mobility business unit, providing Viasat access to its digital transformation toolset, end-to-end managed communications, and connectivity service capabilities. In May 2021, Viasat appealed to

477-549: A joint venture in 2001 with Loral Skynet to found Immeon Networks to develop the Immeon satellite bandwidth-on-demand service sold in monthly managed service plans. ABC News used Immeon to improve its voice and data-communications for on-location news. Viasat won a contract with WildBlue Communications worth $ 16 million in March 2001 to build WildBlue's satellite modems to support the company's initial service launch. WildBlue signed

530-696: A managed private network that operates on Ku-band satellite links and can use the Yonder global satellite network as well. The worldwide satellite broadband access that Viasat offers allows for airborne mobile broadband for en route communications. The company has an airborne mobility program for C-17 jets and encrypts the satellite to hub link connections for the government. Viasat's Satellite Access Manager (SAM) supports Department of Defense missions through airborne intelligence for surveillance and reconnaissance operations. SAM increases bandwidth utilization and efficiency through real-time network monitoring systems for

583-755: A new wiper malware codenamed AcidRain designed to permanently disable routers. Viasat later confirmed that the AcidRain malware was used during the 'cyber event'. AcidRain shares code with VPNFilter , a 2018 cyber operation against routers attributed to the Russian military by the FBI. On 10 May, 2022, the European Union condemned the attack targeting Viasat's KA-SAT network as a Russian operation. In May 2019, UK politician Priti Patel , shortly before her appointment as Home Secretary, began working for Viasat as

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636-885: A result of the acquisition. In 2017, Viasat announced the intention to enter into a joint venture with the European satellite operator Eutelsat . As part of the venture, the companies will jointly operate two new business entities with one owning and operating Eutelsat's KA-SAT satellite and wholesale broadband business and the other purchasing KA-SAT satellite-based capacity and marketing retail broadband internet services throughout Europe. Both businesses would be headquartered in Lausanne , Switzerland . The companies aborted their joint venture plans in April 2018. The company launched its third (previous satellites were ViaSat-1 and WildBlue-1) satellite, ViaSat-2 on June 1, 2017 and ViaSat-3,

689-605: A second contract with Viasat in 2001 for $ 17 million and Viasat would develop and produce satellite modem termination systems for six gateway stations. WildBlue launched its internet service in October 2004 after gaining Ka-band transponder capacity on the Telesat Anik F2 satellite. It conducted formal technical testing until January 2005, followed by nationwide beta testing before the first residential retail customers had services installed in June. The WildBlue service

742-522: A security operations center. Viasat is working in conjunction with Southern California Edison to enhance their critical infrastructure security systems through a funding from the U.S. Department of Energy meant to improve protection of the nation's electric grid and oil and gas infrastructure from cyber-attack. Viasat also offers mobile two-way satellite broadband services to the United States Government. Tactical communications for

795-672: A spin-off company, TrellisWare Technology, in 2000. The self-funded company focuses on developing communications and signal processing systems. The acquisition of the satellite networking business of Scientific-Atlanta for $ 75 million in cash in 2000 helped Viasat to focus on providing technology for interactive services to businesses. In 2001, Viasat started working with Boeing on Connexion broadband for airliners. The company acquired Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications' products unit, Comsat Laboratories in 2001 for an undisclosed amount. Comsat Laboratories

848-508: A strategic adviser on a salary of £5,000 a month for five hours' work a month without seeking prior approval from the government's Advisory Committee on Business Appointments. This led to accusations that she had broken the ministerial code for a second time. In July 2013, Viasat was licensed by the Federal Communications Commission for Ka-band aeronautical earth stations. Viasat operates resources on four satellites: ViaSat-1 , WildBlue1, Anik-F2 and ViaSat-2. The ViaSat-3 constellation

901-698: A time per plane. In 2017, Viasat established a commercial agreement with Grupo Prosperist, a telecommunications service provider in Mexico, to deploy the Community Wi-Fi service. Community Wi-Fi utilizes a centralized hotspot in order to connect to a Viasat satellite and deliver affordable internet service to remote communities in Mexico. By 2019, Community Wi-Fi was now accessible to over one million people throughout Mexico. Facebook also began investing in Community Wi-Fi in 2019 to continue providing high-speed, satellite-powered internet to rural locations across

954-579: Is IPv6 . IPv6 was a result of several years of experimentation and dialog during which various protocol models were proposed, such as TP/IX ( RFC   1475 ), PIP ( RFC   1621 ) and TUBA (TCP and UDP with Bigger Addresses, RFC   1347 ). Its most prominent difference from version 4 is the size of the addresses. While IPv4 uses 32 bits for addressing, yielding c. 4.3 billion ( 4.3 × 10 ) addresses, IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses providing c. 3.4 × 10 addresses. Although adoption of IPv6 has been slow, as of January 2023 , most countries in

1007-413: Is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), which has been in increasing deployment on the public Internet since around 2006. The Internet Protocol is responsible for addressing host interfaces , encapsulating data into datagrams (including fragmentation and reassembly ) and routing datagrams from a source host interface to a destination host interface across one or more IP networks. For these purposes,

1060-524: Is Viasat's technology and product development group for communication systems focusing on developing new technologies for extremely bandwidth efficient, high data rate satellite transmission. In 2001, Viasat also purchased US Monolithics, a company focused on designing high frequency broadband circuitry, for around $ 30 million. Eutelsat entered an agreement in 2001 to use Viasat's LinkStar high performance IP terminals for their broadband multimedia network over Ku -based FSS satellites. Viasat entered

1113-448: Is a connectionless protocol , in contrast to connection-oriented communication . Various fault conditions may occur, such as data corruption , packet loss and duplication. Because routing is dynamic, meaning every packet is treated independently, and because the network maintains no state based on the path of prior packets, different packets may be routed to the same destination via different paths, resulting in out-of-order delivery to

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1166-612: Is an example of a protocol that adjusts its segment size to be smaller than the MTU. The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and ICMP disregard MTU size, thereby forcing IP to fragment oversized datagrams. During the design phase of the ARPANET and the early Internet, the security aspects and needs of a public, international network could not be adequately anticipated. Consequently, many Internet protocols exhibited vulnerabilities highlighted by network attacks and later security assessments. In 2008,

1219-538: Is dynamic in terms of the availability of links and nodes. No central monitoring or performance measurement facility exists that tracks or maintains the state of the network. For the benefit of reducing network complexity , the intelligence in the network is located in the end nodes . As a consequence of this design, the Internet Protocol only provides best-effort delivery and its service is characterized as unreliable . In network architectural parlance, it

1272-495: Is error-free. A routing node discards packets that fail a header checksum test. Although the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) provides notification of errors, a routing node is not required to notify either end node of errors. IPv6, by contrast, operates without header checksums, since current link layer technology is assumed to provide sufficient error detection. The dynamic nature of

1325-483: Is expected to be in service by 2022. In addition, there is a contract for a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch for another ViaSat-3 class satellite, as well as a third satellite to be launched by United Launch Alliance within a similar timeframe. Launched in 2012 under the Exede name, Viasat Internet is a broadband internet service that covers areas traditional terrestrial internet service providers do not reach. In 2013,

1378-698: Is one of the major retailers that offers Viasat Internet to its customers. Dish Network resells the Viasat Internet service and other internet services under its own DishNet brand name. In December 2013, Viasat launched its in-flight WiFi service on JetBlue . The fleet contained 190 aircraft using the service in 2014, and 420 in November 2015. The company has since expanded the service to other airlines including United Airlines , American Airlines , Scandinavian Airlines , Delta , El Al , Aeroméxico , JetBlue , and Qantas . The dual-band technology allows airlines to offer connectivity to over 150 customers at

1431-853: The Arizona State University Research Park in Tempe, Arizona. The Arizona campus focuses on design and manufacturing of advanced microwave communication and radar products, radio frequency systems and cybersecurity. In 2016, Viasat announced a research and development facility in Chennai, India. In 2017, Viasat broke ground on an 80,000 square foot facility on the ATLAS property near the Texas A&;M Health Science Center in Bryan, Texas . Viasat also acquired LonoCloud,

1484-518: The Internet . IP has the task of delivering packets from the source host to the destination host solely based on the IP addresses in the packet headers . For this purpose, IP defines packet structures that encapsulate the data to be delivered. It also defines addressing methods that are used to label the datagram with source and destination information. IP was the connectionless datagram service in

1537-461: The US military involves tactical data, information assurance, and satellite communications. Tactical data links provide secure networking for voice and data. Information assurance for encryption devices allow for the transfer of classified data across public networks. Satellite communications give real-time intelligence for command and control functions. The US government uses ArcLight technology over

1590-515: The 2015 report, download speeds were just over 100% of advertised, while upload speeds topped 150% of advertised speeds. The long distance to the geosynchronous orbit used by Viasat has a latency of over 600 ms, over 10 times more than terrestrial or low Earth orbit systems like Starlink , rendering it much less competitive for applications like videoconferencing and video gaming . Viasat Internet likewise offers voice over IP residential phone service with its Viasat Voice Services. DirecTV

1643-659: The ArcLight2 broadband terminals. Internet Protocol Early research and development: Merging the networks and creating the Internet: Commercialization, privatization, broader access leads to the modern Internet: Examples of Internet services: The Internet Protocol ( IP ) is the network layer communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries. Its routing function enables internetworking , and essentially establishes

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1696-443: The Internet Protocol defines the format of packets and provides an addressing system. Each datagram has two components: a header and a payload . The IP header includes a source IP address, a destination IP address, and other metadata needed to route and deliver the datagram. The payload is the data that is transported. This method of nesting the data payload in a packet with a header is called encapsulation. IP addressing entails

1749-480: The Internet and the diversity of its components provide no guarantee that any particular path is actually capable of, or suitable for, performing the data transmission requested. One of the technical constraints is the size of data packets possible on a given link. Facilities exist to examine the maximum transmission unit (MTU) size of the local link and Path MTU Discovery can be used for the entire intended path to

1802-666: The United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and requested a halt for SpaceX 's ongoing launches of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites that power Starlink . Viasat alleged that the Federal Communications Commission 's decision did not comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and said that SpaceX launches should be halted due to "environmental harms when satellites are taken out of orbit; light pollution that alters

1855-512: The Voice home service was introduced as a companion to the data service. The company also distributes a business internet, initially called Exede Business, which was launched in 2014. Viasat's Exede Internet is powered by Viasat's ViaSat-1 satellite. The satellite was announced in 2008. Designed by Viasat and manufactured by Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto, California , the satellite

1908-512: The acquisition was completed On 24 February, 2022, the day Russia invaded Ukraine , thousands of Viasat modems were disabled by a "deliberate ... cyber event" in what became known as the Viasat hack . Thousands of customers in Europe were without internet for at least a month. On 31 March, 2022, SentinelOne researchers Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade and Max van Amerongen announced the discovery of

1961-463: The assignment of IP addresses and associated parameters to host interfaces. The address space is divided into subnets , involving the designation of network prefixes. IP routing is performed by all hosts, as well as routers , whose main function is to transport packets across network boundaries. Routers communicate with one another via specially designed routing protocols , either interior gateway protocols or exterior gateway protocols , as needed for

2014-411: The destination. The IPv4 internetworking layer automatically fragments a datagram into smaller units for transmission when the link MTU is exceeded. IP provides re-ordering of fragments received out of order. An IPv6 network does not perform fragmentation in network elements, but requires end hosts and higher-layer protocols to avoid exceeding the path MTU. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

2067-410: The evolution of the Internet Protocol into the modern version of IPv4: IP versions 1 to 3 were experimental versions, designed between 1973 and 1978. Versions 2 and 3 supported variable-length addresses ranging between 1 and 16 octets (between 8 and 128 bits). An early draft of version 4 supported variable-length addresses of up to 256 octets (up to 2048 bits) but this was later abandoned in favor of

2120-922: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viasat&oldid=1226529603 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Viasat (American company) Viasat was co-founded in May 1986 by Mark Dankberg, Mark Miller and Steve Hart. Mark Dankberg became chief executive officer and Mark Miller and Steve Hart became chief technical officers . Viasat received venture capital financing of $ 300,000 from Southern California Ventures. In December 1996, Viasat had its initial public offering (IPO). In 1999, Viasat moved into its headquarters in Carlsbad, California. Viasat launched

2173-474: The merger was given by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority in March 2023 with 25 May 2023 set as the date for a formal decision. On May 31, 2023, the acquisition was completed. On 3 October, 2022, Viasat and L3Harris announced that L3Harris would purchase Viasat's Tactical Data Link product line and network for $ 1.96 billion, consisting of Viasat's Link 16's terminals and networks. On Jan 3rd, 2023,

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2226-455: The net purchase price to about $ 445 million. In 2010, Viasat bought Stonewood Group of Dorset , England, an encryption company, for $ 20 million in cash and stock. In January 2013, Viasat broke ground for its expansion in Duluth, Georgia , the second largest location after the company's headquarters in Carlsbad, California at the time. In 2015, Viasat opened a 116,000 square foot facility at

2279-408: The night sky; [and] orbital debris." The FCC rejected these claims, and, on July 20, 2021, the judges ruled that SpaceX can keep launching broadband satellites. On November 8, 2021, Viasat announced a $ 7.3 billion deal to purchase Inmarsat for $ 850   million in cash, approximately 46   million shares of Viasat stock and assumption of $ 3.4   billion in debt. Provisional approval for

2332-504: The original Transmission Control Program introduced by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in 1974, which was complemented by a connection-oriented service that became the basis for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). The Internet protocol suite is therefore often referred to as TCP/IP . The first major version of IP, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), is the dominant protocol of the Internet. Its successor

2385-415: The receiver. All fault conditions in the network must be detected and compensated by the participating end nodes. The upper layer protocols of the Internet protocol suite are responsible for resolving reliability issues. For example, a host may buffer network data to ensure correct ordering before the data is delivered to an application. IPv4 provides safeguards to ensure that the header of an IP packet

2438-671: The topology of the network. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] There are four principal addressing methods in the Internet Protocol: In May 1974, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) published a paper entitled "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication". The paper's authors, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn , described an internetworking protocol for sharing resources using packet switching among network nodes . A central control component of this model

2491-498: The world show significant adoption of IPv6, with over 41% of Google's traffic being carried over IPv6 connections. The assignment of the new protocol as IPv6 was uncertain until due diligence assured that IPv6 had not been used previously. Other Internet Layer protocols have been assigned version numbers, such as 7 ( IP/TX ), 8 and 9 ( historic ). Notably, on April 1, 1994, the IETF published an April Fools' Day RfC about IPv9. IPv9

2544-552: The world. In July 2020, Viasat launched a high-speed residential internet service for Brazil, using bandwidth from the Telebras SGDC-1 satellite. Its minimal infrastructure Wi-Fi service reached across eight states, including São Paulo , Rio de Janeiro , Minas Gerais , Pernambuco , Paraná , Rio Grande do Sul , Federal District , and Amazonas . Eclypt hard drives and external USB drives produced by Viasat are encrypted to ensure that data stored cannot be retrieved if

2597-931: Was acquired in 2014. Focused on government and enterprise customers, NetNearU has a wifi management system called TRACKOS, a cloud -based software. ViaSat acquired Gray Labs, a company that specialized in satellite-to-earth communications for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in July 2014. Viasat acquired network virtualization company Engreen in 2015 to enhance its Flexible Broadband System. In March 2015, Viasat acquired EAI Design Services in order to add its Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) microprocessor design into satellite and cybersecurity projects. In 2016, Viasat acquired Arconics, an aviation software provider based in Dublin, Ireland. The company added 40 Arconics employees to its staff and expanded its software offerings as

2650-585: Was also used in an alternate proposed address space expansion called TUBA. A 2004 Chinese proposal for an IPv9 protocol appears to be unrelated to all of these, and is not endorsed by the IETF. The design of the Internet protocol suite adheres to the end-to-end principle , a concept adapted from the CYCLADES project. Under the end-to-end principle, the network infrastructure is considered inherently unreliable at any single network element or transmission medium and

2703-469: Was completed in 2011. It was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome , Kazakhstan in October 2011 using a Proton Breeze M rocket. The satellite has a geostationary orbit over North America at 115.1° West longitude. ViaSat-1 has 72 spot beams . The satellite has 63 beams covering the continental USA and Hawaii, and 9 covering Canada through the Xplornet service. The satellite weighs 6,740 kg and has

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2756-712: Was the Transmission Control Program that incorporated both connection-oriented links and datagram services between hosts. The monolithic Transmission Control Program was later divided into a modular architecture consisting of the Transmission Control Protocol and User Datagram Protocol at the transport layer and the Internet Protocol at the internet layer . The model became known as the Department of Defense (DoD) Internet Model and Internet protocol suite , and informally as TCP/IP . The following Internet Experiment Note (IEN) documents describe

2809-1049: Was upgraded in 2007 using the satellite WildBlue-1, which launched the year before. In 2005, Viasat acquired Efficient Channel Coding, a producer of broadband communication integrated circuits and satellite communication systems, which gave Viasat access to the IPStar satellite broadband market. Enerdyne, a defense technology firm, was acquired by Viasat in 2006 for an initial investment of $ 17 million adding its EnerLinks II video data link equipment to Viasat's defense products. Viasat acquired JAST Antenna Systems, based in Lausanne , Switzerland, in 2007. JAST develops microwave circuits and antennas for terrestrial and mobile satellite applications. On December 15, 2009, Viasat bought WildBlue, based in Colorado, for $ 568 million in cash and stock. Wildblue also brings its WildBlue-1 satellite and Ka-band capacity on Telesat's Anik F2 and about $ 75 million in cash and $ 45 million in tax losses, bringing

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