I'll be there, with projector and screen, Wednesday October 28, 6:30pm. I will give the medium-length presentation; if you are already full of questions, go to http://server-sky.com and study up.
( and Russell - there is a lot of new stuff since May and June, so I hope you will find that engaging ) Primarily, I am interested in feedback and ideas regards community communications. In the beginning, Server Sky will be communications poor and computer-rich, used for weather modelling and genome sequencing and other compute-bound tasks. Longer term, it will be used for internet downlink (moderate bandwidth up, ultrahigh bandwidth down). Ground footprints will be kilometer-sized, and a given footprint can be talking to hundreds of arrays, more if the ground receivers act together as a distributed antenna. There is room in orbit for hundreds of thousands of large arrays, so the system is monopoly-resistant. This seems like a good match with the original PTP vision of meshed neighborhoods and cities with multiprovider backhaul. A PTP-optimized design may be replicated around the world, a decade from now. So the question is, given physical and economic constraints, how can we design the orbiting system to match the community system even better? I hope we can explore that at the monthly. And can someone volunteer as scribe? If we come up with some great ideas, I would like them added to a Server Sky wiki page. Or the PTP wiki, which I can link to. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
