For the people who have seen their US48 state earth station setups in person it is pretty normal on the network level. Being colocated with major inter-city long haul dark fiber DWDM regen sites (Level3 dark fiber path Seattle to Boise, ID which has a regen hut site in Prosser, WA is a perfect example) gives them the ability to buy a transport circuit to the nearest major city/IX point and haul traffic there. I believe they're buying single 100 Gbps waves.
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 2:18 PM Chris J. Ruschmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Don’t quote me on this, but I wouldn’t say they are doing anything > different than you or I can do and have access to on the routing layer. > It's probably just Nokia and Arista and whatever those systems provide. > Stuff like Tunneling, ECMP, BFD and VxLan... Think spatially coordinated > Zerotier and not based on latency. They also have a pretty good team of > experts that have experience with large scale networking and automation > they've plucked from various places. > > How the Satellites talk to the end users is where all the magic is. But my > understanding is that it's all custom developed networking as code that > handles all the frequency coordination and hand offs with the ground. > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Michael Thomas > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2023 1:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Starlink routing > > CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not > click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know > the content is safe. > > > > I read in the Economist that the gen of starlink satellites will have the > ability to route messages between each satellite. Would conventional > routing protocols be up to such a challenge? Or would it have to be custom > made for that problem? And since a lot of companies and countries are > getting on that action, it seems like fertile ground for (bad) wheel > reinvention? > > Mike > >
