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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by 1234letshaveatw on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:04AM (#23846180)
Would satellite on-board caching be possible? Could you cache, for instance, the most frequently requested cat photos currently on reddit? You would be able to bypass half of the round trip
Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by shaklee3 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:19AM (#23846435)
Possible, yes, practical, no. In general, you want the least complexity as possible in the payload, since you can't fix it as easily as you can with ground bugs. Also, memory that's space-hardened is going to be significantly more expensive and failure-prone, so you need a lot of redundancy.
Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by txcwpalpha on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:12PM (#23848215)
AFAIK Verizon is doing something similar with edge compute in their 5G towers/data centers. If Starlink gets big enough, I'd expect them to do the same. However, I think it's much more likely for Starlink to put the edge compute/cache at the Starlink ground stations, rather than in the satellites themselves. I think the tech/cost still isn't good enough to have significant compute on a satellite.

https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/verizon-partners-aws-to-br...