[Starlink] mems optical switching

[Michael Richardson]

Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
    > I think, in general, we have gathered here quite a few folk that are
    > interested in new technology, and the list
    > does veer away from starlink issues more often than not. Today, this
    > about google's mems switching tech hit,
    > and I keep wondering where else it could be applied.

    > https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-apollo-the-3-billion-game

An interesting read.
Starlink content: could they avoid latency and power consumption by using
optical switching in the satellites.  I suspect it's irrelevant, because the
satellites don't have more than about four lasers.  (I think I heard four)



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