Palomino can act as a server, and embedding Java applets allows it to be used as a web server. In this configuration, the audiovisual drive can house all of its web-based commands in a cache mode. This permits a user to obtain web pages locally instead of across time-consuming satellite links. For intranet operations, this capability translates into local power. A user could attain Internet access at the hub end and download web information to the server, which, in turn, would transport it across the network.
Many broadcast networks are television-receive only.
A user can transmit data across this type of network, but it may offer no storage place. While this capability also could permit adding a Fortezza card for security, Robinson offers that this type of system is not designed for the types of uses that would involve moving sensitive corporate information. In a configuration typical of that designed for Merrill Lynch, two or three video sources and a MediaMagic videocassette controller transmit directly across the link through the Palomino gateway, on through the encoder, to the satellite ground station for uplink. The downlink passes through the integrator receiver decoder to the Palomino remote, producing a 100Base T network that effectively provides streaming video to the desktop. A further advance of Palomino is based on a configuration known as the VSAT point of presence, or VPOP, system.