Initial setup

AIT satellite earth station was installed June 1997 and was inaugured on June 30th, 1997.

The ground station is composed of following equipment:

3.8 meters Prodelin Ku-band antenna
8 watt LC3 serie 8200 outdoor tranceiver
CM701, Comstream satellite modem
Pentium, under BSDi, running as an Internet router

Every piece of equipment is detailed in CSIM connection to world wide Internet.