This technology can be added later without discarding the IDI equipment, Robinson explains. A user can achieve VSAT capability without having a VSAT antenna. Adding an 18-inch antenna provides data and video. The shift away from processing-heavy computers toward netcentric machines that run off a network offers no drawback for the company's systems. Beeler notes that plans call for embedding Java applets right on the circuit card so that users can interface with the programming language wherever they want.
Company advances in the works include dynamic digital buffering services.
An Ethernet chip and routing software compose a switched router. Any LAN can communicate with another, while a specific LAN can be disabled from communicating with another. Many existing VSAT networks actually are hybrid on the data side, Beeler states. Incorporating IDI's technology into an existing VSAT network allows multimegabit broadcasts to the desktop on the VSAT infrastructure, with the return channel for inquiries and acknowledgments ported out of this system over to the frame relay network. In this configuration, the Palomino gateway would transmit the high-speed data broadcast as well as store it for later transmission or streaming to the desktop.