[mhandley]

It will be very interesting to see how they manage queuing across the network of ISLs. The latency benefits can be real, but only if they don't allow queues to build in the satellites themselves. It's not too hard if you run the network at low utilization, but that would make it rather expensive. Running such a dynamic and meshy wide-area network at high utilization without significant queuing in the nodes is currently an unsolved problem in the networking research community. I do think it can be done (I have my own ideas how), but it's definitely not something that current networking algorithms can handle.