Satellite hub station and remote terminal operations by Tanveer AhmedSatellite hub station and remote terminal operations by Tanveer Ahmed

Satellite hub station and remote terminal operations

Tanveer Ahmed

Tanveer Ahmed

The problem

Remote terminals commissioned once and then expected to run unattended — on a path with permanent latency, scarce space segment, weather in the topology, and no second route to fail over to.

What I do

Day-to-day operation of an iDirect hub and its remotes: link budgets, remote commissioning, carrier and modem configuration, and hybrid failover testing against terrestrial paths — plus the Cisco, Fortinet and MikroTik estate behind it, and the monitoring that flags a degrading terminal before the site calls.

The result

Terminals that stay up unattended, and a failover path that has been tested rather than documented. Designing under a hard bandwidth and latency ceiling changes how you build everything afterwards.
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Posted Sep 28, 2026

An iDirect hub and its remote terminals, run day to day: link budgets, commissioning, and hybrid failover on a path with no second route.