Satellite-enabled Interactive Education: An Evaluation of Satellite-based Distance Learning Architectures and Network Interoperability Issues

Economic communities based in scattered or remote rural areas, such as agriculture and maritime, share a pronounced need for both broadband connectivity at remote geographical locations and interactive multimedia content delivering education system. Accordingly, each of these sectors also has their own special requirements with regard to the type of content needed to be delivered. Our papers reports on the networking performance and interoperability issues that raised during the evaluation two real-world distance learning scenarios, which were conducted using DVB-RCS (digital video broadcast-return channel satellite) and terrestrial wireless technologies