The Internet's Next Frontier

For bridging the global digital divide, there are few more promising Internet connectivity technologies today than WiFi. WiFi enables users to connect to the Internet wirelessly while located in a connection “hot spot,” the area covered by a wireless Internet access point. Hot spots can span individual establishments such as cafés, large complexes such as airports, and even public parks and entire villages.

Rural and Remote Internet Connectivity

Within the past few years, satellites have been instrumental in bringing high-speed Internet to users located in areas where broadband infrastructure such as DSL or cable cannot reach. For many, however, the equipment and connection costs of such a service have been prohibitive, particularly when weighed against the typical individual user’s modest Internet needs.

The combination of WiFi + satellite can provide an economical shared service among inhabitants of farm communities, rural hamlets and mountain and island villages; the satellite connection brings the Internet stream to the village, the WiFi access point extends that connectivity to the home, school, and public building. Users share both equipment and connection costs through subscription or other joint payment plans.

Mobile and Temporary Internet Hubs

WiFi + satellite also can be used to provide quick, temporary, locally-ubiquitous Internet connectivity, which is useful in the case of special events, emergency missions, and mobile operations. By adding an access point, a Satellite News Gathering (SNG) truck, for example, can provide wireless Internet connectivity to reporters’ laptops and PDAs within a specified radius.

WiFi + SES NEW SKIES 

SES NEW SKIES can provide broadband Internet connectivity to virtually any populated spot on the planet. Already,SES NEW SKIES provides broadband services to a diverse customer base for a wide range of applications. In addition, SES NEW SKIES’ IPsys® service is delivering Internet backbone connectivity to a multitude of ISP end-users through 20 DVB-IP platforms around the globe.

SES NEW SKIES is committed to working with partners to extend broadband level Internet connectivity wherever it is needed -- whether to remote communities or to mobile professionals -- through the use of WiFi. For more information about the opportunities presented by WiFi + Satellite, download our WiFi + Satellite White Paper, or call your SES NEW SKIES sales office today.