Equipment maintenance and upgrades are also included. When BroadView's first service adapter proved to be cranky, Cidera installed a replacement. And the new box is working just fine. Although Cidera is expanding into Latin America and Asia, today's installed base covers primarily the United States and Western Europe. ISPs accounted for all of Cidera's revenue in 1999.
Satellites are distance insensitive when it comes to transmission costs.
The satellite-caching model also offers a form of bypass to monopoly PTT control of fibre. Nevertheless, as fibre becomes ubiquitous and the cost of fibre capacity halves every ten months the proponents of satellite caching are chasing a potentially receding marketplace. These market factors, and the growing popularity of terrestrial CDNs, lead Cidera to launch partnerships with Akamai and Digital Island in mid-2000. In short, Cidera benefits from complementing, not competing with, terrestrial CDNs. Cidera isn't shy about competing with other satellite network operators like Loral and iBeam.