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Efficient? Long haul fiber (DWDM) capacity is measures in Tbps....
by lsjdfkljdfwkwdf 10y ago
Efficient? Long haul fiber (DWDM) capacity is measures in Tbps....
- Retric 10y agoI don't have SpaceX numbers. But, a constellation like this was supposed to provide ~200 Gbytes per month for 5 billion people, which works out to ~3000 terabytes per second or ~5 terabits per second per satellite at a minimum. (More if they are modeling the ocean.) http://www.popsci.com/samsung-wants-launch-thousands-satellites-bring-everyone-earth-internet http://www.popsci.com/samsung-wants-launch-thousands-satelli... ED: Here is the paper. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1508/1508.02383.pdf https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1508/1508.02383.pdf
- agildehaus 10y agoIn terms of latency, not raw capacity.