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How would they be faster than microwave / laser terrestial towers, that already travel around the great arc?
by rich_sasha 6y ago
How would they be faster than microwave / laser terrestial towers, that already travel around the great arc?
- AlgorithmicTime 6y agoWell, unless you can build a line-of-sight microwave/laser tower that can see over the oceans, Starlink's intercontinental links will be faster once the inter-satellite communications lasers are fully integrated. Also the speed of light in a vacuum is faster than the speed of light in air.
- marsokod 6y agoYou can't really cross oceans with microwaves though. So a London from can gain a competitive advantage against other London firms on Wall Street exchange.
- rich_sasha 6y agoIt’s interesting. At this kind of distance, I wonder how topologies of cables and satellite constellations compare. Cables run relatively straight under the sea. If they are optic fibre, they run at a lower speed than light in vacuum. Satellites are in space, so communicate pretty much at speed of light, but probably not in a straight line, depends where the satellites are. HFTs are indeed great at gaming such things, will be interesting to see what happens.