Spacenet Custom Networks: Hybrid Network Services

Having a reliable network is critical for most enterprise businesses, and finding a consistent service plan, service provider and technology for all of its locations can be a challenge. To solve this issue, Spacenet serves as a single source for connectivity, application and management solutions. Spacenet’s hybrid networks combine the strengths of different connectivity architectures to deliver an optimum combination of performance, availability and cost that is not matched by any single technology platform. Users benefit from having a single interface for network management and customer service, as well as a network that is optimized for all applications and locations.

Key benefits of Spacenet’s hybrid networks include:

  • Significant cost savings - Far less expensive than reaching 100% of locations with traditional solutions
  • Better performance - Network is optimized for all applications
  • Increased availability - Hybrid sites maintain a much higher level of network availability and VSAT/DSL as a backup ensures availability of near 100%
  • One source - One number to call for ordering, provisioning and help desk
  • Seamless networking - Get all connectivity through a single backhaul
  • True broadband ubiquity - DSL where VSAT doesn’t fit and vice versa


Spacenet hybrid network solution packages include:

  • DSL
  • Cable
  • Private Line (full/fractional T-1)

Spacenet offers two types of hybrid networks: site-level and network-level. In a site-level hybrid network, there is a satellite link at a single location enabling customers to route different networks via the two connections. For example, hotels might route their public in-room connectivity LAN via the DSL, and the back-office secure LAN via the VSAT. Or, customers may choose to mix the two together for a mixed connectivity or backup service.

In a network-level hybrid, DSL-served locations are blended into a seamless network with VSAT-served locations, and it is managed as a single network. Spacenet can also provide site-level hybrid connectivity enabling customers to choose which ports, applications, and addresses use which connection method and failover connectivity, which activates the VSAT when the DSL fails, or vice versa.