alot of stores, banks, gas stations, and schools have dishes on the roof and not the kind you get from Dish network, or DirecTV or PC these are usually white and sometimes really big, what are they for?
Some chain stores/gas stations in the NYC Metro area use satellite transmission to link to their home office or a central database. It can be used for Credit Card verification, in store training, inventory control or price changes. I'm sure that there are uses that I have omitted or forgotten.
They have been in use for at least 5+ years that I know about, probably longer.
<< but I thought 2 way sattelite communication didnt exist untill now...... for 2 way internet. >>
IBM was uplinking stores of all different kinds of chains for now decades. They still use all that extra bandwidth to watch you make monkey faces in mens room mirror.
<<but I thought 2 way sattelite communication didnt exist untill now...... for 2 way internet. >>
I don't think they are using the internet...I always thought the big companies had their own private systems.....Maybe not now, but in the past....someone feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken.
my mother works for a gas station chain. they have direct feed cameras via sat. dishes that go straight to the corp. hq where she is. 500 and something stores that are recorded 24/7. the room is just a bunch of tv's where there are guys that monitor what's going on all day (watching the pumps for people driving off, robberies, clerks stealing).
The larger stores use these satellite dishes for their piped in music, as was stated before. For example, Taco Bell has their own music channel.
Credit card and check card transactions take place either over ISDN (small stores), phone line (REALLY small stores) or dedicated data circuits (medium/large stores).
<< but I thought 2 way sattelite communication didnt exist untill now...... for 2 way internet. >>
IBM was uplinking stores of all different kinds of chains for now decades. They still use all that extra bandwidth to watch you make monkey faces in mens room mirror. >>
That's where I worked, at IBM. We took over the service for many of these installations from GE quite a while ago.
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