High speed satellite Internet with telephone and FAX service 

High Speed Satellite Internet Telephone and FAX (cont.)

At the remote site, calls are handled by what's called the Remote Terminal. At the point where the system meets the regular telephone network, there is what's called a Host Terminal. Each Host terminal can support 2 or more Remote Terminals in various configurations.

Our satellite telephone system features a specially configured hardware terminal at each end of the connection. At the remote site, a telephone jack located on the remote terminal is connected to a customer-provided telephone or FAX machine The remote terminal is also connected to the satellite Internet service via a standard Ethernet connection.

At the landline end, 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 has a standard telephone jack to connect to a standard telephone line. Calls or faxes made to the remote site telephone number will ring through as if the remote site telephone were in the same room as the Host Terminal (the only difference being approximately three-quarters of a second of delay).

Any calls 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
The landline host terminal can connect to an analog port on the customers PBX if needed. Please contact your PBX vendor if you don't know whether your PBX has an available analog port. The Host Terminal comes equipped with one FXO port and one FXS port.

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