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....
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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.