Re:Google Fiber Was Doomed from the Start
by lsjdfkljdfwkwdf on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @05:26PM
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Efficient? Long haul fiber (DWDM) capacity is measures in Tbps....
Re:Google Fiber Was Doomed from the Start
by Retric on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @06:02PM
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I don't have SpaceX numbers. But, a constellation like this was supposed to provide ~200 Gbytes per month for 5 billion people, which works out to ~3000 terabytes per second or ~5 terabits per second per satellite at a minimum. (More if they are modeling the ocean.)
http://www.popsci.com/samsung-wants-launch-thousands-satelli...
ED: Here is the paper. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1508/1508.02383.pdf
Re:Google Fiber Was Doomed from the Start
by agildehaus on Friday March 17, 2017 @11:18PM
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In terms of latency, not raw capacity.
If SpaceX can prove reusability, which is looking likely, putting up a constellation like this will become significantly cheaper. They also can just reuse first stages that their own customers already paid for (their customers pay for the flight, not the stage itself).