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Re[2]: Sattelite datafeed faster than landlines ?



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Hello Brian,

Wednesday, August 21, 2002, 6:00:00 PM, you wrote:

BM> Satellite delay is caused by the distance that the signal has to
BM> travel from the VSAT unit to the satellite. This delay of < second
BM> is present in all satellite-based services including the
BM> long-distance phone call that we use today. The throughput
BM> performance however, remains unaffected.

And the delay could be halved by utilising a number of StratSats at
about 2% of the cost of launching another dedicated satellite

www.airship.com


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