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There may be some ground stations owned by WISPs or whatever servicing a whole community, but I think the theory is that a lot will be small end user terminals
by mikepurvis 6y ago
There may be some ground stations owned by WISPs or whatever servicing a whole community, but I think the theory is that a lot will be small end user terminals providing connectivity to just a household or two in a remote location. If these are your users, then yeah, it could very well be advantageous to have and orbital CDN if millions of them are all streaming the same new Cobra Kai episode at the same time or whatever.
- jandrese 6y agoI was thinking it would be more attractive to people who want to host content that is problematic inside of national borders. Basically treat space like international waters so you can host your Pirate Bay or 8Chan or whatever outside of national jurisdictions.
- mikepurvis 6y agoIf Starlink was knowingly hosting dubious/illegal content in space, wouldn't the media companies simply make the case that each individual jurisdiction revoke their license to the radio spectrum?
- jandrese 6y agoThat would be a tough case to make I think. Spectrum allocations are hard to change. I can't think of any case where they were threatened as part of a legal dispute.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoUh. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=starlink+russia https://hn.algolia.com/?q=starlink+russia and from there especially https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25749178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25749178 So you were trying to say what exactly?
- Dylan16807 6y agoOh, we're talking solely about serving the people on starlink? Not a general CDN? Yeah, that should have a small niche or two where you could make it better. > There may be some ground stations owned by WISPs or whatever servicing a whole community I'm talking about the ground stations that provide internet access to the satellites. > all streaming the same new Cobra Kai episode Multicast it.