The ViaSat SurfBeam® Broadband System is a totally new kind of satellite-based system designed expressly for building broadband access networks, not like modified Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) systems that have failed to successfully expand to larger networks. With over 500,000 terminals shipped, it has become the single most popular web-centric broadband satellite networking system ever.

The SurfBeam system is the only all-inclusive networking system designed from the beginning (due to its DOCSIS® heritage) to deliver highly scalable, high performance consumer/small-office and small-medium enterprise (SME) broadband services over satellite, and it delivers the economics that make broadband-by-satellite a great business as well.

Creating Fast Satellite Broadband Uptake Around the World
The SurfBeam system is the network technology behind these fast growing broadband services, and it can bring the same success to you:

• WildBlue Communications, United States 
• Eutelsat ToowayTM Ku- and Ka-band consumer broadband in Europe 
• Telesat Ka-band consumer services in Canada 
• Intelsat/Orbit Communications Ku-band service, Middle East 
• Pegaso Banda Ancha, Mexico 
• Smart Digital Networks, Malaysia

Great Broadband Experience for Customers and Operators
With SurfBeam, ViaSat has successfully integrated the widely used Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) broadband cable industry technology with the latest in advanced and proven satellite technology.

Key SurfBeam Broadband by Satellite Advantages

• Highly scalable architecture allowing you to economically start with a small network that serves only a few thousand customers, then easily grow the hub infrastructure to accommodate hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of subscribers. 
• High system capacity and lower bandwidth costs using advanced ViaSat technologies that give customers a better user experience, support more applications, and provide you with higher system capacity to serve more customers. 
• Consumer priced terminals because of the economies of scale inherent in millions of DOCSIS chipsets already produced and proven in the field, along with ViaSat success in shipping more than 500,000 units to date. 
• Integrated front and back-office support. Unlike other satellite-based systems, the SurfBeam system also includes the front and back-office support functions that simplify managing your customers and network:
  • Customer-based subscriptions 
  • Service plan definitions and activation 
  • Simple and automatic provisioning of new subscribers 
  • Billing.

Expand Your Markets for Broadband Access
Along with your existing customer base and distribution channels the SurfBeam system enables rapid penetration into new markets for broadband access. You can pick and choose the best customers for broadband access, without the cost or delays of building terrestrial connections to reach them.

For Ku- or Ka-band Satellites
The SurfBeam system is cost-effective on traditional Ku-band broadbeam satellites and brings unsurpassed network capacity, low cost-per-bit, and ability to scale to millions of subscribers using new Ka-band spotbeam satellites.