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photo depicts a SatVox remote terminal used in satellite internet telephone from Skycasters a North American broadband satellite Internet serviced provider

SatVox Satellite Telephone And Satellite FAX System

Standard Configuration

The SatVox system comes with a specially designed and preconfigured hardware terminal for each end of the connection. At the satellite remote side, a telephone jack located on the remote terminal is connected to a customer-provided standard wired or wireless telephone and/or FAX machine The remote terminal is also connected to the Skycasters satellite Internet service via ethernet.

photo depicts the back of a SatVox satellite internet telephone terminal from Skycasters a nationwide DiRECWAY broadband satellite Internet retailerAt the landline end of the connection, the host terminal is connected via ethernet to the customers LAN switch or hub (connected to the Internet via any broadband connection). The host terminal telephone jack is connected to a standard telephone line via a standard telephone jack. The system is then ready to place or receive calls.

Calls or FAXs made to the remote site telephone number (the number of the telephone line) will ring through to the remote satellite telephone as if the remote site telephone were in the same room with the Host Terminal, the only difference being approximately 3⁄4 of a second of delay, as the signal traverses the satellite space link. Any calls or FAXs made from the remote side will be local (if local to the telephone line) or will be placed through the long distance carrier that has been selected for the telephone line.

PBX Option

As an option, the landline host terminal can connect to an analog port on the customers PBX. Please contact your PBX vendor if you don't know whether or not your PBX has an available analog port. The SatVox Host Terminal comes equipped with 1 FXO port and 1 FXS port.

 

Voice Quality

The voice quality over the SatVox system is as aproximately as good as what would be expected over a typical cellular telephone connection.

Users experience clear, close to landline voice quality, although with a small delay (similar to what is experienced when CNN interviews a reporter in a foreign country).

The delay results from the 46,000 mile "hop" up to the satellite and back to earth. It is helpful to explain to the other party that the call is being placed over a satellite connection, and that because of the transmission delay, both parties must be careful not to try to speak until the other party has finished speaking.

Also, because the transmission is over a shared network there will be times during which the connection is better than other times. There may be, from time to time, short periods during which there is too much network congestion for voice service to work properly.

Skycasters provides availability numbers as follows "98% as good as a regular telephone call, 90% of the time". FAX transmissions work in the normally expected manner although with some reduction in speed, and are subject to the same limitations.