Re:Inmarsat's European short-haul wi-fi spacecraft launches
by tyingq on Thursday June 29, 2017 @11:35AM
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It does (sort of) exist for things that aren't on-demand, but rather more like live TV, as the 1-to-many broadcast means less satellite bandwidth used. Some airlines use this today. They should use a local server on the aircraft to cache stuff for "on demand", though I don't think any are doing this today.
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Re:Inmarsat's European short-haul wi-fi spacecraft launches
by xur17 on Thursday June 29, 2017 @11:48AM
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A lot of flights have a bunch of on-demand movies and tv shows that you can watch that are stored on the plane.
Re:Inmarsat's European short-haul wi-fi spacecraft launches
by tyingq on Thursday June 29, 2017 @11:50AM
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Yes...there's an older way of doing that with physical disks that someone swaps out. There's not many using a live network to trickle data onto the aircraft and store it for a small local "on demand" library.