On 5/11/2021 2:05 pm, Nathan Owens wrote:
> > They are using waves back to regional DCs now, but will be moving to
> > dark fiber over the next year or two
> If that means "radio" waves, then this goes a long way to explaining why
> there's already limited capacity even near the US-Canada border.
>
> Waves in this case generally refers to 10G/100G leased optical circuit 
> capacity.
>
Thanks for clearing this up, that makes sense now!

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.

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