From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
To: Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Starlink] mems optical switching
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:58:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2892973.1679230732@dyas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA93jw6YnEGmDfRVFBgeigaJ5bLsdLgXEj-2RtgNsSqjCcfOwQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink@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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-19 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-18 22:19 Dave Taht
2023-03-19 12:58 ` Michael Richardson [this message]
2023-03-19 14:16 ` Brandon Butterworth
2023-03-19 14:33 ` Christian von der Ropp
2023-03-20 11:32 ` Dave Taht
2023-03-20 11:42 ` David Lang
2023-03-20 11:46 ` Mike Puchol
2023-03-20 18:55 ` Ulrich Speidel
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