Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders
by Jedd on Thursday February 18, 2021 @03:39PM
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Yup, we might be down to 100ms now -- certainly still a long way from your initial 15ms guess.
Since I moved on from that last gig, I note that Telstra completed their Sydney-Perth re-cabling project, and the Vocus Perth-Singapore undersea link came online (2018-04).
(I believe east coast traffic routes through Perth to get to Singapore, which was/is/will continue to be part of the problem.)
"lightspeed math" means LEO may well offer performance improvements over terrestrial cabling in many non-obvious scenarios.
Since I moved on from that last gig, I note that Telstra completed their Sydney-Perth re-cabling project, and the Vocus Perth-Singapore undersea link came online (2018-04).
(I believe east coast traffic routes through Perth to get to Singapore, which was/is/will continue to be part of the problem.)
"lightspeed math" means LEO may well offer performance improvements over terrestrial cabling in many non-obvious scenarios.