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Starlink could also provide new backbone

• bcrl 4y ago
  No. Starlink does not have enough capacity for that.
  • voisin 4y ago
    For voice only?
  • ackbar03 4y ago
    Could you elaborate a bit? Not sure why the parent comment was voted down, I'm genuinely curious
    • bcrl 4y ago
      RF just simply does not have the capacity of fibre. Capacity upgrades in a satellite network take 5-10 years. Lighting up another wavelength on a glass fibre takes a few minutes to plug in new equipment at either end of the link. Right now I see usage across my network at around 4-5 Mbps per subscriber at peak. It takes a few hundred users at those rates to overload a Starlink terminal with a gigabit port. Starlink is not a viable backhaul technology for anything but the smallest of networks.
  • Nextgrid 4y ago
    For remote areas I would think it could? If the choice is between Starling and absolutely nothing, the former can provide at least some level of service. You'd also expect such remote areas to not be so densely populated so a single Starlink backhaul can be enough.