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by adrianN 3094 days ago
I don't think wireless technology will ever be able to compete with fiber for bandwidth. You can cram incredible amounts of data through glass. It's on the order of Petabits/second for a single strand.
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metaobject 3094 days ago
They mention inter-satellite optical links, but an operational space-to-ground optical system might be tolerable.
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deepnotderp 3094 days ago
Free space OAM communications perhaps?
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