VSAT fundamentals

ViaSat, Inc. engages in providing communications technologies and services. It operates through the Communication Services and Defense and Advanced Technologies business segments. The Communication Services business segment provides a wide range of broadband and narrowband communications solutions across government and commercial mobility markets. The Defense and Advanced Technologies business segment develops and offers a diverse array of resilient, vertically integrated solutions to government and commercial customers, leveraging the company’s technical competencies in encryption, cyber security, tactical gateways, modems, and waveforms. The company was founded by Mark D. Dankberg and Mark J. Miller on May 1, 1986 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.