https://secure.dslreports.com/forum/r26302400-general-Tooway-KA-Band-Read-
The European "Too-Way" ViaSat1 user terminal should be the same as the North American terminals. A notation is about there being only one send and receive cable(instead of two). The European model also has a self install feature(maybe a hand held unit, along with a user interface in the modem) which would probably be not allowed in North America(government regulations against self install, but a user interface in the modem would be allowed for tweaking).
http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/111014-hughes-viasat-order-sats.html
Satellite broadband providers ViaSat and Hughes expect to purchase big Ka-band satellites within the next year to back up and expand their existing and soon-to-be-deployed capacity, the two companies’ chief executives said Oct. 13. Hughes’ priority for a second model of its Jupiter satellite now under construction appears to be to duplicate its North American success in Brazil, India or China. ViaSat’s expected order of a ViaSat 2 spacecraft would provide in-orbit backup for the company’s North American business
The interesting part in the article has to due with 'propitiatory hardware' or 'patents' and that's bullshit. Patents are destroying future innovation in the World. It's one thing to create a product and be given a certain short time frame for profit on that creation, but there are companies out there that are using very vague wording to prevent competition, via patents.
Even Apple is suing Samsung out of the Tablet markets, as the Apple tablet is black with a glass screen and the Samsung tablet is black with a glass screen. And so is every other Tablet as well. There are many products out there that the only difference is the makers brand name on the product. There are products that are 100% the same, except the maker sold labeling rights to a discounter of the product.
Dankberg said intellectual property rights over the ViaSat-2 satellite’s design will be a focus of the contract. ViaSat had voiced suspicions that Hughes’ Jupiter spacecraft bore too close a resemblance to ViaSat-1, which Dankberg said the company designed pretty much on its own.
“We feel like some of the IP [intellectual property] around our first satellite wasn’t protected as well as it should have been,” he said. “This time we’re going to do better.”
Space Systems/Loral, prime contractor for ViaSat-1 and Jupiter, strongly denied that it had taken ViaSat proprietary technology to build Jupiter.
Dankberg said that in addition to patents over high-throughput Ka-band satellites that ViaSat expects to register, the company will take extra care in structuring its ViaSat-2 contract to assure that no technology slips away.
