4 ms·

Impressive! I believe round trip latency would be 0.5 seconds.

• 1e1a 8mo ago
  That's ~162.5 MB in transit at any time
  • zppln 8mo ago
    Weird.
  • htgb 8mo ago
    Shouldn't it be 1000/16 = 62.5? Impressive nonetheless, of course!
    • 1e1a 8mo ago
      The article says 2.6 gigabits/second which is 2,600,000,000 bits/second, 2,600,000,000b/s * 0.5s / 8 is 162,500,000 bytes, 162,500,000 / 1,000,000 is 162.5 megabytes
      • htgb 8mo ago
        Right, thanks
  • kevincox 8mo ago
    Excellent for pingfs (https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs)
  • arethuza 8mo ago
    That could you used like RAM like the delay-line memory used by early computers!
  • kipchak 8mo ago
    There's a patent (2017/0280211 A1) for using this as a data storage method, and there was a company called Lyteloop trying to leverage the idea for data storage with estimations for petabytes across constellation.