Hi guys I will give you a much technical info on 'ka' band the best info is that we will use a much smaller dish size as compared to what we are using on both C and Ku band now, Ka-band is the next frequency band that the satellite industry is currently moving to as the availability of spectrum at C-band and Ku-band diminishes and nears
saturation. Ka-band is expected to transform satellite communications, in much the
same way that Ku-band completely changed the original C-band industry some two
decades ago.
The adoption of Ku-band in the 1980s and 90s provided more capacity and
bandwidth, but it did much more than that. it introduced the concept of regional
beams, signalling the rise of regional satellite operators such as Eutelsat, Arabsat
and others. The use of Ku-band, together with a US ‘open skies' policy, opened
the door to the widespread use of smaller end-user antennas/VSATs (Very Small
Aperture Terminals), enabling the deployment of more cost-effective customer
networks.
Ka-band will trigger a similar step-change in the satellite communications industry,
but the impact will be much bigger, presenting challenges for some existing
operators, yet at the same time creating new opportunities and business models for
others. Ka-band is the logical successor to Ku-band and will evolve into the delivery
mechanism of choice for emerging markets and high-demand regions throughout
the world.The use of Ka-band for a range of satellite
communications applications provides
customers with large amounts of "new"
capacity, higher speeds and smaller
VSATs to enable more cost-effective
network deployments. Ka-band is well
suited to support the next generation of
communication applications which require
large amounts of high-throughput capacity
which cannot be met using C- and Ku-band
frequency allocations alone.
In addition to Ka-band's much needed
"new" capacity to support high-throughput
applications, user terminal equipment
prices are also decreasing. This is driven by
the rapidly growing, large scale consumer
services such as WildBlue, ViaSat and the
soon-to-launch Global Xpress system from
Inmarsat. This applies not only to fixed
terminals but also to mobile terminals
for land, maritime and airborne use. The
deployment of the Ka-band Wideband Global
Satcom (WGS) military system and the US Air Force's AEHF satellite network
is further fuelling the availability of a large volume of fixed and mobile Ka-band
terminals at attractive prices. There are a number of different suppliers of Kaband
terminals in the market, from different countries, which makes for a healthy,
competitive supply situation.What we can do is to encourage merchandisers to import ka lnb so that we can get them.