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Exede Internet
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Website www.exede.com

Exede Internet was launched in 2012 through ViaSat and provides broadband internet to the United States. Exede service is powered by the ViaSat-1 satellite. [1] ViaSat-1 earned the Guinness World Record title for the highest capacity communications satellite. [2] The Exede service currently serves 687,000 customers in the U.S. [3] [4]

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History

Launched in 2012, Exede Internet is a broadband internet service that covers areas traditional terrestrial internet service providers do not reach. [1] In 2013, Exede introduced Exede Voice home service as a companion to the data service. [5] [6] [7]

Exede also offers Exede Business, which was launched in 2014 and Exede Enterprise for live events, field operations, and disaster response. [6] [8]

ViaSat-1

The satellite ViaSat-1 was announced in 2008. Designed by ViaSat and manufactured by Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto, California, the satellite was completed in 2011. [9] It was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan in October 2011 using a Proton Breeze M rocket. The satellite has a geostationary orbit over North America at 115.1° West longitude. ViaSat-1 has 72 spotbeams. [10] The satellite has 63 beams covering the continental USA, Alaska and Hawaii, and 9 covering Canada through the Xplornet service. [11] The satellite weighs 6,740 kg [12] and has a 15-year operational life. [10] ViaSat-1 cost $400 million to produce and launch. [13] ViaSat-2, which launched in June 2017, expands the capacity and coverage of the Exede service. [1] [6] [8]

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Exede Internet

Exede Internet is powered by ViaSat's ViaSat-1 satellite. [2] [13] [14] [15] Initially the satellite broadband internet was launched as a response to the lack of coverage provided by terrestrial services. [15] The 12 Mbit/s service from Exede was faster than earlier satellite internet access options such as WildBlue which could reach 1.5 Mbit/s. In 2016, a 25 Mbit/s download speed was introduced in some areas, as well as a new modem supporting the new speed tier that includes an integrated Wi-Fi router and VoIP adapter. [16]

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The internet service covers most of the continental U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii. [13] [17] Between 2012 and 2015, the Federal Communications Commission has reported that Exede Internet met or surpassed advertised speeds. In the 2015 report, Exede download speeds were just over 100% of advertised, while upload speeds topped 150% of advertised speeds. [18]

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WiFi modem

Exede also offers voice over IP residential phone service with its Exede Voice service. [13] DirecTV is one of the major retailers that offers Exede Internet to its customers. [19] Dish Network resells the Exede service and other internet services under its own DishNet brand name. [20]

ViaSat in-flight Wi-Fi

Through Exede Internet technology, ViaSat offers in-flight Wi-Fi to connect airline passengers to broadband internet. [4] [17] [21] [22] ViaSat produces its own in-aircraft terminals that link ViaSat-1 using both Ka and Ku-band satellite networks to power the in-flight Wi-Fi. [21] The service is used by JetBlue and United Airlines, [6] [8] [17] as well as Virgin America, which uses the service to stream Netflix programming to passengers. [23] JetBlue started with 30 planes using the service. The fleet contained 190 aircraft using the service in 2014, [24] and 420 in November 2015. [4] The dual-band technology allows airlines to offer connectivity to over 150 customers at a time per plane. [21]

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  2. 1 2 "ViaSat Is High On Guinness...Exedes World Record For Highest Capacity Satellite". SatNews. March 7, 2013. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
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  22. ↑ Fast and Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Uncharted Territory for Airlines. Mike Tierney. November 2, 2015. New York Times. November 18, 2015
  23. ↑ NOW STREAMING NETFLIX – AT 35,000 FEET. September 29, 2015. Virgin America.February 10, 2016
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