Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders
by anticensor on Thursday February 18, 2021 @04:29AM
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> There's no reason to assume starlink works like a typical satellite, though.
And it does not. Starlink satellites do active switching unlike BSS satellites which only transmodulate and redirect.
Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders
by shaklee3 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @09:19AM
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Not true. Most modern geo satellites for internet have switching capabilities.
I would think the radio technology in starlink should more closely resemble modern LTE and 5G cell networks, whether you want to call that CDMA, OFDM, or whatever the specific techniques these days are called.