Thanks to the continuing technological evolution, connectivity over fixed, mobile and wireless networks has certainly improved in terms of speed and stability, but to achieve the widespread availability of symmetric capacity at the Minimum Cell Rate (MCR), which would result in both Residential and Business Multimedia Services sky-rocketing, huge investments in both infrastructure and technology are required.
Current technology, last mile cabling, investments in Digital Exchanges and overall market trends, have pushed Operators towards offering asymmetric shared capacities ADSL / ADSL2+ for Residential services which are essentially suited to Internet browsing and symmetric capacity at MCR such as HDSL and SHDSL for Business.
Fibre Optics (FO) which offers a far superior symmetric capacity to the copper network, is only available in large towns and cities.
The Mobile networks are developing HSDPA / HSUPA offers with ever increasing capacities using shared cell access.
For terrestrial cable connections or mobile without MCR, the bandwidth resources are always shared between users meaning the greater the numbers of users connecting contemporarily the lower the connection speed.

If we take for example a 7 Mbps subscription in a high-density traffic zone, the real access and browsing speed is around 300 - 500 Kbps, with copper-cabled connections also having to take into account the quality of the twisted-pair and the distance from the Digital Exchange.
At the end of the day you pay for Mbps but you browse in Kbps.

Broadband connectivity is not considered a worthwhile infrastructure investment in areas where there is a low density of potential customers or where the territorial geography is complex (isolated, mountainous, islands, etc.).

Digital Divide and Satellite

For zones not reached by xDSL, FO, Mobile or Wireless, the situation of Broadband unavailability is known as the Digital Divide.
In these zones the only solution to achieve Broadband connectivity is the use of satellite, a solution that for many years has been considered stable and advantageous in situations where coverage of an entire area without black spots is required, as well as for national, continental and intercontinental coverage.

Used in Business environments for many years (point-point connections, VSAT networks), for some time now its use has also been extended to TV reception and Internet connection for the Residential sector.

The Advantages of Tooway

• Greater satellite speed for Residential use thanks to the new Satellite KA-SAT 9° East.
• No telephone lines, no black spots, satellite coverage everywhere.
• Satellite dish and Modem installation kit extremely compact and quick to install compared to VSAT.
• Ample capacity available on the new Ka Band satellite (20 – 30 GHz), with greater flexibility compared to terrestrial ADSL.
  For terrestrial ADSL using the example of vehicular traffic, the greater the number of vehicles the lower the traffic speed.
  With Tooway the satellite capacity increases as the number of users increases, as if the increase in vehicles on a road results in a new lane being added allowing all traffic to maintain the same speed.
• The most advanced satellite technology currently available on the market, no problems with atmospheric conditions (rain, snow) thanks to Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) and the advanced standard DOCSIS for Broadband Services.
• Satellite delay negligible thanks to the centralized integration of PEP (Performance Enhancing Proxy) and Web accelerator.
• Platform developed by world leaders in satellite communications Eutelsat / Skylogic and managed by the operator Open-sky to whom customers pay a monthly traffic charge.

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Tooway with VPN Integration for Business Clients

Tooway was initially created for Residential connectivity to Internet but the number of requests from public and private companies (Large Enterprise, Government, SME – SMB, SOHO) to connect sites, offices or home offices located in the Digital Divide continues to grow steadily.
Gordionet has put together a sophisticated proposal for VPN Integration (Virtual Private Network) that allows Remote Access Services to company servers (company e-mail, applications, etc.), VoIP, Video Surveillance, Parameter Monitoring for Electric – PV (Photovoltaic) – Hydroelectric – Windpower systems, Desktop Remotization, Videoconferencing, IPTV, Videostreaming, etc., thanks to certified Enterprise Routers inserted at both the remote Tooway site and the office / central site which must be equipped with terrestrial connectivity (xDSL, FO) with public IPs either pre-existing or subsequently activated through one's own Operator.

This solution is a complementary low cost alternative to VSAT, as it is limited by FAP and fixed speed.

The Tooway satellite platform is not a native VPN and does not supply public IPs, as it is a private network. However, through VPN integration with cryptographic tunneling between Routers, it allows you to see from the remote Tooway site in the Digital Divide, the public IPs at the office / central site and therefore to activate point to point / multipoint connections for the aforementioned professional Services.

The Router or Modem Router at the site / central office, is configured according to the number of remote Tooway sites and the number of sites with terrestrial connectivity to be integrated into the VPN. All Routers are preconfigured to be Plug & Play, reducing installation and activation costs.
For remote sites in Digital Divide, the connection speed and the traffic capacity can be increased by implementing 2 or more Tooway systems bound to the same Router.

The added value of VPN integration is the total configuration flexibility that Gordionet can implement and manage at the customer’s request and which includes VPN profiling, traffic and protocol optimization, security, management via NOC (Network Operating Center) of the parameters of the supporting satellite (C/N downlink and uplink), accessibility, remote configuration, RTT Round Trip Time tests for Routers and external equipment for which an example has been illustrated below: