<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<p>I'm Ulrich and I'm at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Broader interest is in novel technologies for getting (better or
any at all) Internet to the underserved of this world. In our
backyard that means - mostly but not only tropical - Pacific
Islands with too few folks on them to make a business case for a
submarine fibre connection. I've so far mostly concentrated on
narrowband GEO and MEO pipes to small island ISPs or ISP-like
entities, and you've linked to our home page (<a href="https://sde.blogs.auckland.ac.nz">https://sde.blogs.auckland.ac.nz/</a>)
the other day - much appreciated.<br>
</p>
<p>Interest in Starlink: It's one of the developments that might
help in this effort, although the current orbital inclinations (53
degrees) still leave large gaps around the tropical regions. No
surprise all those gushing beta user reports come from people
north / south of 40 degrees latitude, where satellite density is
highest. For the tropical Pacific, remoteness will be another
showstopper while Starlink uses standard bent pipe links - you
really need to be within a couple of hundred miles of a gateway
teleport of this to work. Many islands we worry about are many
hundreds of miles from the next connected piece of land, let alone
a Starlink teleport. So once inter-satellite routing will be
happening (how? when? where?), we may be debating bufferbloat all
over again. I'm also intrigued how the global Starlink system
capacity (rumoured to be 23.6 Tb/s for the commercial start) will
suffice to service the billions of underconnected in the world
when much of that capacity will be over water at any time (where
it's not needed). I'm thinking here in particular that this number
is awfully close to the current connected capacity between
Australia/NZ and North America, and there's only around 25 million
of us here who, unlike Starlink customers, have CDN server farms
between ourselves and our international links. So I have heaps of
questions, which have recently appeared in an APNIC blog: <br>
</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blog.apnic.net/2021/05/20/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-leo-satellites-part-1-the-basics/">https://blog.apnic.net/2021/05/20/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-leo-satellites-part-1-the-basics/</a>
<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/07/2021 5:02 am, Dave Taht wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAA93jw6FKvw-A8nH8Py5Np-dnt+NJ=gN0oYGBYoYTrXF3PLXKQ@mail.gmail.com">
<br>
Please? newer folk here, please briefly introduce yourselves and
your<br>
interests in starlink's stuff?<br>
I very much approve of lurkers - even aliases! for those that
cannot<br>
talk due to various NDAs, etc, but...<br>
</blockquote>
--
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">****************************************************************
Dr. Ulrich Speidel
School of Computer Science
Room 303S.594 (City Campus)
Ph: (+64-9)-373-7599 ext. 85282
The University of Auckland
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ulrich@cs.auckland.ac.nz">ulrich@cs.auckland.ac.nz</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~ulrich/">http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~ulrich/</a>
****************************************************************
</pre>
</body>
</html>