[Davisgig] SpaceX Internets

rob rob at omsoft.com
Thu Nov 17 22:30:46 PST 2016


Hi

So this hit the news today. Very interesting.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/spacex-plans-worldwide-satellite-internet-with-low-latency-gigabit-speed/

It seems this proposed solution gets around the traditional problem of 
high latency satellite connection, and should have  enough capacity for 
many users.
I wonder how long it will take to build.



There is this, though from a Business Insider article.

http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-internet-satellite-constellation-2016-11



Musk first discussed the unnamed satellite constellation project back in 
January of last year, later filing for an FCC application to test basic 
technologies that would support it.

At the time, Musk said during a SpaceX event (our emphasis added):

"The focus is going to be on creating a global communications system. 
This is quite an ambitious effort. We're really talking about something 
which is, in the long term, like rebuilding the Internet in space. The 
goal will be to have the majority of long distance Internet traffic go 
over this network and about 10% of local consumer and business traffic. 
So that's, still probably 90% of people's local access will still come 
from fiber but we'll do about 10% business to consumer direct and more 
than half of the long distance traffic."


Anyone want to read the FCC filing?

RAN



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