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Its the groundstation that needs backing up and the location is surrounded by the sea.
by partomniscient 2y ago
Its the groundstation that needs backing up and the location is surrounded by the sea.
- ViewTrick1002 2y agoWhich Starlink solves utilizing the laser links between satellites.
- tedivm 2y agoYou're grossly underestimating the bandwidth needs of the site. You're not going to replace a cluster of fiber optic cables with Starlink.
- inemesitaffia 2y ago10 Gbps in Ka and 100 in E band
- ViewTrick1002 2y agoWe're talking backup vs. primary. Of course the backup is not going to be as good.
- tedivm 2y agoStarlink has an upload speed between 5 and 20 Mbps. The Svalbard cable is a 10Gbps link. It's still a major difference. That said apparently they do have a satellite backup, just not through Starlink.
- ViewTrick1002 2y agoFor a consumer grade connection. Why on earth would an enterprise contract be limited to those speeds??
- sandworm101 2y ago>> We're talking backup vs. primary. Of course the backup is not going to be as good. Then it isn't really a backup. A lower-bandwidth failover capacity is properly described as an alternative or degraded pathway. To be a proper "backup" a thing has to actually do the primary job at least temporarily.
- red-iron-pine 2y agoaye. Starlink could be, best case, an Out of Band (OOB) management interface. good for getting into the other side of a connection or doing some management tasks like back-up telemetry -- but we're talking SNMP, SSH connections to routers, etc, not GigE levels of data.