Headquartered in Carlsbad, CA, Viasat designs, develops and markets advanced digital satellite telecommunications and other wireless networking and signal processing equipment. The company serves its high-bandwidth, high-performance communications solutions to public as well as military, enterprises and governments enterprises.

Viasat provides broadband services named ‘Exede’ in North America. This features the world's highest capacity satellite – ViaSat-1; satellite broadband networking systems; global mobile satellite services comprising high-speed in-flight Internet as well as global tracking and messaging; and Wi-Fi and other hotspot support, operations and management systems.

Effective from the first quarter of fiscal 2025, Viasat restructured its operating segments to better reflect its existing businesses and offer investors greater transparency about its future growth opportunities. Viasat currently has two operating segments that are as follows:

Communication Service segment (which accounted for 73.4% of total revenues in first-quarter fiscal 2025): This segment encompasses four key business lines - Aviation, Government Satcom, Maritime, and Fixed and Other. It provides a wide range of broadband and narrowband communications solutions across government and commercial mobility, maritime, fixed broadband (residential), energy and enterprise customers in the United States.

Defense and Advanced Technologies segment (which accounted for 26.6% of total revenues in first-quarter fiscal 2025): This segment provides a diverse set of resilient, vertically integrated solutions, leveraging core technical competencies in encryption, cyber security, antenna systems, modems and waveforms to government and commercial customers. The segment comprises Information Security and Cyber Defense, Space and Mission Systems, Tactical Networking, and Advanced Technologies and Other.