For the satellites we are looking at for Nigeria, it is 10 MB/s total per transponder.
Although multi-cast would be great for pushed content, not too useful for pulling which is what will have a direct impact on user experience. Local caching would be useful here but too complex. One easy solution that could be implemented in relatively short period of time is a common cache sitting on the server that could be queried for content prior to hitting the Internet. The Disney home page will be downloaded only the first time someone browses to it. More intelligence could be added to such caching layer later to make it more distributed and to start querying surrounding accessible machines for example. Khaled Ivan Krstić wrote: > Ian Stirling wrote: >> What is the total satellite bandwidth over Africa? > > We can get 2Mbit/s to each base station, but I forget the total > capacity. In any case, it's not enough to satisfy our needs without > extensive use of multicast. > -- Khaled Hassounah OLPC - http://laptop.org _______________________________________________ Networking mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/networking
