Perhaps a hybrid GEO/LEO could be made? The bandwidths are not bad for the existing satellite internet solutions.
From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Schiltz Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:55 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again That's cool, but this type of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites seem to me more sutible for ubiquitous low bandwidth communication, e.g. satellite phones. I don't know how well it would scale - for example, I doubt that millions of people could simultaneously get their full megabit from a small LEO constellation. One alternative that looks intriguing to me is Facebook's Aquila drone, that flies at about 20km altitude - still low enough for microwave broadband communication, but high enough to avoid commercial air traffic. On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Space X just launched the first 10 (of 70) of Iridium NEXT low-earth satellites. https://www.iridium.com/company/industryleadership/iridiumcertus It’s not high bandwidth (about a 1MB/sec), but should be lower latency than HughesNet, Wildblue, etc. From: Friam <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Nick Thompson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 11:13 AM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again No BroadBand at my farm in Central Massachusetts. Awaiting Gary’s International Assistance. Remember a few years back when Venezuela was supplying cut-rate oil to low income people in New England? Just Sayin’ Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Gary Schiltz Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:43 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again I have been working here in Ecuador to provide internet access to poorly served areas, and it is a challenge, albiet not an insurmountable one. Wireless technology from smallish companies like Ubiquiti, Mikrotik, and Mimosa to name a few, is pretty inexpensive, even here where import duties are high. The big challenge where I'm working is getting line-of-sight between nodes, where there is a lot of dense forest cover over 20 meters high. One thing that I found interesting in the article that Jochen linked to is that the US FCC defines broadband as 25mbps down / 3mbps up. Maybe I'm just used to it, but I find about 2up/1down plenty even for video streaming. More is always better, of course :-) On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Santa Fe, and New Mexico in general, is interesting in that regard. [...] But then there is a lot of the countryside that is left out of this. I really like the idea of making the Country(side) important. In NM there issues with the tribal lands which are poorly served, but it's getting better. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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