[Starlink] Intro and a question

[Dick Roy]

Even better, this guy's BS goes back to the late 80's when Qualcomm was
promising 1000 times AMPS in cellular capacity with their new CDMA
technology!  Fast forward, CDMA has disappeared from planet earth as a
cellular technology ... and 3 major telecommunications manufacturers are out
of business!!

RR

-----Original Message-----
From: Starlink [mailto:starlink-bounces at lists.bufferbloat.net] On Behalf Of
Karl Auerbach
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 4:09 PM
To: starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Intro and a question


On 7/26/21 8:51 PM, Larry Press wrote:

>
https://spacenews.com/tech-breakthrough-morphs-gigabit-wifi-into-terabit-sat
ellite-internet/ 
>
<https://spacenews.com/tech-breakthrough-morphs-gigabit-wifi-into-terabit-sa
tellite-internet/> 

Wow!  I got massive deja vu and thought had to check whether I was 
reading a 1970's copy of the JC Whitney Catalog!

(Or my own CaveBear Catalog - of hyperbolic bogus network stuff: "If we 
have it, you don't need it"), most particularly:

   - Our Press Release from one of the Interop shows, people actually 
believed this!!  Gaga Net: 
https://www.cavebear.com/cb_catalog/techno/gaganet/ )

   - The Maximum Momentum Router: 
https://www.cavebear.com/cb_catalog/current/maxmoment/

(For those who don't remember, the JC Whitnet catalog was filled with 
things for your car that would improve gas milage by a zillion percent 
or bump horsepower by 200hp.  With that catalog one could turn an old 
1200cc VW bug into a flame breathing monster, or so one would if one 
accepted the hyperbole.)

OK, let's accept this guy's claims as true.  Do they make an end-to-end 
difference?

Perhaps if the satellite part of the end-to-end path is truly a bit 
synchronous "bent-pipe".  But Starlink seems to be evolving far past 
that simple bit-clocked-circuit model into something more resembling a 
space internet with routers, or at least a switched network that could 
have issues such as choice of route, multiple inputs feeding into one 
output (in other words, potential congestion).

BTW, I did like the article's phrase "High Definition Internet" - It 
immediately called to mind "Brawndo - it's got electrolytes" (from the 
movie Idiocracy.

	--karl--
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