Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-24 Thread Masataka Ohta
Jorge Amodio wrote: You, seemingly, do not have much knowledge on UUNET. Of course I don't :-) atina agomar(DAILY), antar(DAILY), biotlp(DAILY), cab(HOURLY), cedro(EVENING), cenep(DAILY), cneaint(DAILY), cnea(EVENING), cnielf(DAILY), colimpo(DAILY), confein(DAILY),

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
> > > You, seemingly, do not have much knowledge on UUNET. > > Of course I don't :-) #N atina #S Everex 386 Step 33; SCO Xenix System V 2.3.3 #O Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto #C Jorge Marcelo Amodio #E atina!postmaster #T +54 1 315 4804, Fax: +54 1 315

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Masataka Ohta
Jorge Amodio wrote: This gets sort of merged with DTN (Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking.) I have been saying that DTN is a reinvention of UUNET. Hmmm, nope not even close. You, seemingly, do not have much knowledge on UUNET. As such, it should be noted that, in UUNET, availability

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
> > > > This gets sort of merged with DTN (Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking.) > > I have been saying that DTN is a reinvention of UUNET. > Hmmm, nope not even close. > > As such, it should be noted that, in UUNET, availability of > phone links between computers was scheduled. > You must be

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Masataka Ohta
Jorge Amodio wrote: We are in the process of starting a new Working Group at IETF, Timer Variant Routing or TVR. https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/tvr/about/ Some of the uses cases are for space applications where you can predict or schedule the availability and capacity of "links" (radio,

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Eric Kuhnke
I think it's useful to clarify terminology - the starlink antenna unit itself is the CPE. With my v1 starlink terminal you can plug literally anything into the PoE injector that is a 1500 MTU 1000BaseT DHCP client and it'll get an address and a default route out to the internet. All of the smarts

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
FYI, We are in the process of starting a new Working Group at IETF, Timer Variant Routing or TVR. https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/tvr/about/ Some of the uses cases are for space applications where you can predict or schedule the availability and capacity of "links" (radio, optical) This gets

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/23/23 3:14 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: The original and traditional high-cost way of how this is done for MEO/LEO is exemplified by an o3b terminal, which has two active motorized tracking antennas. The antenna presently in use for the satellite that is overhead follows it until it's

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Eric Kuhnke
The original and traditional high-cost way of how this is done for MEO/LEO is exemplified by an o3b terminal, which has two active motorized tracking antennas. The antenna presently in use for the satellite that is overhead follows it until it's descending towards the horizon, while at the same

RE: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Kevin McCormick
My original thought was this would be more like Client Optimized Roaming with WiFi access points. Communication between the client dish or base station and satellites to transparently move client dish and base station from satellites moving out of view to a satellite in view. Kevin McCormick

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Eric Kuhnke
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

RE: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Chris J. Ruschmann
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

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Eric Kuhnke
My present understanding is that starlink satellites with lasers are not designed to communicate inter-plane. Each launch of starlink satellites is put into exactly the same orbital inclination (53.2 degrees or the more rare near polar orbits now launched from Vandenberg). In the weeks and months

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Anton Kapela
(inline) On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 4:44 PM Michael Thomas wrote: the ability to route messages between each satellite. Would conventional >> routing protocols be up to such a challenge? > > If conventional is taken to mean "stock" link-state stuff, then probably no (speculating). > Or would it

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2023-01-23 19:08, I wrote: > I get that for 1310 nm light, the doppler shift would be just under > 0.07 nm, or 12.2 GHz: > [...] > In the ITU C band, I get the doppler shift to be about 10.5 GHz (at > channel 72, 197200 GHz or 1520.25 nm). > [...] > These shifts are noticably less than typical

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Tom Beecher
Appreciate that. Definitely becoming clear to me that a lot of my knowledge here was rusty. Lots of papers on this specifically (Doppler effects on optical ISL) that I need to call in some favors to get access to. Thanks! On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 1:08 PM Thomas Bellman wrote: > On 2023-01-23

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Dorn Hetzel
I think it's also likely that only modest, if any, WDM is required on those links, because the goal in most cases will only be to go far enough to get down to a ground station (excepting some low latency transatlantic use cases I have read might be in the offing), and because the satellite RF

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Thomas Bellman
On 2023-01-23 17:27, Tom Beecher wrote: > What I didn't think was adequately solved was what Starlink shows in > marketing snippets, that is birds in completely different orbital > inclinations (sometimes close to 90 degrees off) shooting messages to each > other. Last I had read the dopplar

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 8:54 PM Tom Beecher wrote: > Yes re: Iridium. Contrary to what the Chief Huckster may say, inter-sat comms > are not some revolutionary thing that he invented. 1990s Iridium was a modified version of GSM/ATM with the packetization and routing that implies. I don't know

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Elon for whatever reason is insane enough to dump a lot of cash in > industries which everyone said was a dead end and then has been lucky > enough to prove the old guard wrong. > > - Nobody had 'given up' on reusable launch vehicles. SpaceX (to their credit) just made it a core requirement

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Tom Beecher
Raymond / Jorge - Thanks for that info. Quoting from the paper, that does match my current understanding, being : II. FEATURES OF INTER-SATELLITE COMMUNICATION LINKS AND DESIGN > CONSIDERATIONS This work is aimed to design efficient ISCs links for a > group of small satellites flying in cluster

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Like I said, they're calling it revolutionary. Didn't say it was. However the idea that you can build spaceships which are fully reusable was certainly around the industry, but the consensus was largely "we tried, it costs too much, so we're sticking with one use rockets". Elon for

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
Musk didn't do anything revolutionary, besides launching a shload of LEO satellites. NASA and DoD have been working for long time on optical space communications, last year LCRD was launched and preliminary tests using it as a relay showed 622Mpbs, this year NASA will include on one of the cargo

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Masataka Ohta
Matthew Petach wrote: Unlike most terrestrial links, the distances between satellites are not fixed, and thus the latency between nodes is variable, making the concept of "Shortest Path First" calculation a much more dynamic and challenging one to keep current, as the latency along a path may

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I think the thing they're calling revolutionary is the idea of those links being directional lasers. It makes some sense... if you can basically emit the same signal you'd shoot down a strand of single mode but aim it through the mostly vacuum of space in the exact direction of your neighbor

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Jorge Amodio
Solved years ago … https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielaam/92/8502886/8412572-aam.pdf -Jorge > On Jan 23, 2023, at 1:30 AM, Raymond Burkholder wrote: > >  > >> On 1/22/23 21:54, Tom Beecher wrote: >> Yes re: Iridium. Contrary to what the Chief Huckster may say, inter-sat >> comms are not some

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 1/22/23 21:54, Tom Beecher wrote: Yes re: Iridium. Contrary to what the Chief Huckster may say, inter-sat comms are not some revolutionary thing that he invented. It’s also not likely to function anything like they show in marketing promos, with data magically zipping around the

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On 23/01/2023 0:42, Michael Thomas wrote: 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

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Tom Beecher
Yes re: Iridium. Contrary to what the Chief Huckster may say, inter-sat comms are not some revolutionary thing that he invented. It’s also not likely to function anything like they show in marketing promos, with data magically zipping around the constellation between nodes in different

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Crist Clark
I suspect, although I have no references, that satellite to ground connectivity is probably more “circuit-based” than per-packet or frame. Iridium has done inter satellite communication for decades. I wonder if it wouldn’t be something very similar. Although it would be totally on-brand for them

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 1/22/23 16:05, Matthew Petach wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 2:45 PM Michael Thomas wrote: 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

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/22/23 3:05 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 2:45 PM Michael Thomas wrote: 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

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 2:45 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > 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