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 (https://sde.blogs.auckland.ac.nz/ ) the other day - much appreciated. 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: https://blog.apnic.net/2021/05/20/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-leo-satellites-part-1-the-basics/ On 25/07/2021 5:02 am, Dave Taht wrote: > > Please? newer folk here, please briefly introduce yourselves and your > interests in starlink's stuff? > I very much approve of lurkers - even aliases! for those that cannot > talk due to various NDAs, etc, but... -- **************************************************************** Dr. Ulrich Speidel School of Computer Science Room 303S.594 (City Campus) Ph: (+64-9)-373-7599 ext. 85282 The University of Auckland ulrich@cs.auckland.ac.nz http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~ulrich/ ****************************************************************