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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/11/2021 2:05 pm, Nathan Owens
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<div class="quoted-text" style="font-size:1rem;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(117,117,117);color:rgb(117,117,117)" dir="auto">> They are using waves back to regional DCs now,
but will be moving to <br>
> dark fiber over the next year or two<br>
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<span style="word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">If
that means "radio" waves, then this goes a long way to
explaining why </span><br style="color:rgb(212,212,213);font-family:-apple-system,HelveticaNeue;word-spacing:1px">
<span style="word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">there's
already limited capacity even near the US-Canada border.</span><br>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">Waves
in this case generally refers to 10G/100G leased optical
circuit capacity. </span></div>
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<p>Thanks for clearing this up, that makes sense now!</p>
<p>Now I note that a single Starlink ground station is generally
within sight of and set up to handle multiple satellite links (all
known images show 6 or more radomes). As each bird has ~20 Gb/s
capacity, I guess we'll probably be talking 100G circuits here
(where they can get them). And the move to dark fibre is a logical
step then.</p>
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