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Fair points. Though I’m not sure cloudflare is a good reference - they are a content provider and will pay for a competitive advantage (latency). The post menti
by ricardobeat 5y ago
Fair points. Though I’m not sure cloudflare is a good reference - they are a content provider and will pay for a competitive advantage (latency). The post mentions 50% of their costs come from 6% of traffic, they could simply choose to not pay for transit and let these be rerouted elsewhere.
Once Starlink has the satellite “mesh” operational they would probably become a tier-1 ISP and have zero transit costs. Maybe even sell traffic to other ISPs.
- tsimionescu 5y agoSure, that's a good point, and the Cloudflare article is from 2016, so the market may have advanced as well. On the other hand, unless they somehow get the laser communication working, which is still a research problem despite their optimism, they have way too high latency to act as a tier 1 ISP - all traffic currently goes consumer - 1 satellite - ground station - Internet.