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I have also heard that they are having some trouble with the laser interlinks and alignment as well as the cost of them at this point, so they are starting with

I have also heard that they are having some trouble with the laser interlinks and alignment as well as the cost of them at this point, so they are starting with the microwave interlinks. They still plan on doing the laser interlinks eventually, but they weren't reliable or cheap enough by the time they wanted to begin launching, so they are being left off this first batch. All of that is completely unsourced and heard through anonymous sources that have posted on various forums, so take it with as much salt as you need.

xvilka 7y ago
Oh, microwave links effectively nothing compared to the laser ones. Terrible news. So I guess marketed bandwidth will never be delivered within the first generation of the network.
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_0ffh 7y ago
>they weren't reliable or cheap enough Sounds highly plausible to me, given [1]. I won't say that they won't eventually get there, but it's definitely not going to be a cakewalk. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19892265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19892265