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Do any of you have experience with O3b connectivity? What is the pricing like? Our company has a couple applications where high bandwidth but higher latency c

Do any of you have experience with O3b connectivity? What is the pricing like? Our company has a couple applications where high bandwidth but higher latency connections would great. Obviously if you can get fiber where your data's coming in that's always the best, but we go a lot of places where that's hard.

dogma1138 12y ago
O3B uses Astrium's KA-SAT platform these are 6000+ KG with enough power to power up a whole block birds this isn't what gets you affordable internet to the 3rd world no matter how much PR they trying to spit out. Also their network so far cost over 1bln $ and it's not even nearly complete. I'm not saying that there are no viable applications for data over SATCOM, I'm saying it's not a viable solution for providing internet to emerging markets on more than just the financial aspect. I think i misread your post as a statement rather than a question sorry about that. To answer your question, O3B's pricing is meant to be competitive in TOC in cases when it's not a question of which high speed fiber optic provider i choose from, but when it's a question of which of these huge contractor firms do i need to hire to lay my own fiber across half of Africa. As far as i know their only major costumers currently(out side of governments) are the big shipping companies and maybe a couple of telecoms. Not to sound offensive but if you are asking a question about O3B or any similar network on H/N you probably can't afford it. Also since we are talking about multi-million dollars per year contracts asking for pricing is not really possible it's not like they have data plans :) The final price will depend on who you are, where you need to send it too, and where are you sending it. Also networks like O3B don't really work with off-the-shelf CPE, so you also have a huge buy in cost in as you will pretty much operate a base station that probably costs mid six figures alone even if it's a small one like they put on container ships.. Just a comparison Irridum (a satcom network a consumer can actually contract from) charges over 1$ per KB for data, and they can only provide data transmission in short-data-bursts with very very limited bandwidth mostly used for SMS and maybe maybe WAP. So yeah at current prices watching the latest Miley Cyrus music video from YouTube in HD will cost you about 300,000(tho most likely their entire network combined doesn't have enough bandwidth to stream it)
- terravion 12y ago
  Tracking... Iridium isn't necessarily the best option in satellite data for fixed sites. There are bunch of options for fixed rural internet that are far superior in term of price per GB, but most of those have some pretty stringent caps. We move a lot of data from some pretty rural sites which, by internet standards, is not very time sensitive. I've often wondered if there are products that use excess capacity in cellular or satellite networks to move this kind of stuff at a reasonable price.

dogma1138 12y ago

O3B uses Astrium's KA-SAT platform these are 6000+ KG with enough power to power up a whole block birds this isn't what gets you affordable internet to the 3rd world no matter how much PR they trying to spit out. Also their network so far cost over 1bln $ and it's not even nearly complete. I'm not saying that there are no viable applications for data over SATCOM, I'm saying it's not a viable solution for providing internet to emerging markets on more than just the financial aspect. I think i misread your post as a statement rather than a question sorry about that. To answer your question, O3B's pricing is meant to be competitive in TOC in cases when it's not a question of which high speed fiber optic provider i choose from, but when it's a question of which of these huge contractor firms do i need to hire to lay my own fiber across half of Africa. As far as i know their only major costumers currently(out side of governments) are the big shipping companies and maybe a couple of telecoms. Not to sound offensive but if you are asking a question about O3B or any similar network on H/N you probably can't afford it. Also since we are talking about multi-million dollars per year contracts asking for pricing is not really possible it's not like they have data plans :) The final price will depend on who you are, where you need to send it too, and where are you sending it. Also networks like O3B don't really work with off-the-shelf CPE, so you also have a huge buy in cost in as you will pretty much operate a base station that probably costs mid six figures alone even if it's a small one like they put on container ships.. Just a comparison Irridum (a satcom network a consumer can actually contract from) charges over 1$ per KB for data, and they can only provide data transmission in short-data-bursts with very very limited bandwidth mostly used for SMS and maybe maybe WAP. So yeah at current prices watching the latest Miley Cyrus music video from YouTube in HD will cost you about 300,000(tho most likely their entire network combined doesn't have enough bandwidth to stream it)

terravion 12y ago
Tracking... Iridium isn't necessarily the best option in satellite data for fixed sites. There are bunch of options for fixed rural internet that are far superior in term of price per GB, but most of those have some pretty stringent caps. We move a lot of data from some pretty rural sites which, by internet standards, is not very time sensitive. I've often wondered if there are products that use excess capacity in cellular or satellite networks to move this kind of stuff at a reasonable price.