From: "Dick Roy" <dickroy@alum.mit.edu>
To: "'Karl Auerbach'" <karl@cavebear.com>, <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Intro and a question
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 17:00:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1F663310964B4D00AC1C914363EA90DB@SRA6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1c887e2-08f9-e2fa-1416-c44b74d17075@cavebear.com>
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@lists.bufferbloat.net] On Behalf Of
Karl Auerbach
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 4:09 PM
To: starlink@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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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-27 3:51 Larry Press
2021-07-27 4:44 ` Dick Roy
2021-07-27 23:09 ` Karl Auerbach
2021-07-28 0:00 ` Dick Roy [this message]
2021-07-28 8:16 ` Mike Puchol
2021-07-28 17:27 ` Dick Roy
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