Multi-mode VSAT to provide net access during disasters

SENDAI, Japan - Noriharu Suematsu, a professor in communications engineering at Tohoku University, explains about "multi-mode VSAT," a compact system he helped develop to easily connect smartphones and computers to the Internet via satellite circuits in the event of disasters, during a demonstration test on March 25, 2014, in the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan.

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