It communicates with a base station over a data communication link based on the DECT (digital enhanced cordless telecommunications) standard, the same technology used by many of today's cordless home and office phones.

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ViaSat also offers design capabilities and a number of complementary products including monolithic microwave integrated circuits and modules, DVB-S2 satellite communication components, video data link systems, data acceleration and compression, and mobile satellite antenna systems.

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The secure communication link is a virtual private network communication link over the computer network in which one or more data values that vary according to a pseudo-random sequence are inserted into each data packet.

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