|
|
|
|
|
|
by cycomanic
1513 days ago
|
|
|
I'm not sure I buy this. There is a number of aspects you have not considered here. For the intersatellite links very hop will include an optical/electrical/optical conversion with FEC overheads etc. There is also the question of nearest ground station. It's not clear how many ground stations there are and how far they are from the server you want to connect to (especially considering that they might need to go to a backup station due to weather). It's also still unclear to me how much latency the routing will add, those satellites move pretty fast so during a connection you will likely have to make quite a few handovers, I doubt that you can hold an optimal path the whole time (my suspicion is that we will observe the same as observed in the article, somewhat higher latency with significant variation). That said they are clearly better than GEO, but compared to fibre they will always be niche. |
|
|
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1H1x8jZs8vfjy60TvKg...
Personally, I'm excited to see a latency reduction for across the pond comms.
I don't see much reason to be pessimistic about it, we shall see!