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From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
To: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink "Best Effort" offering
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:38:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <760833.1664541518@dooku> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14B0D432-15BA-42AE-9D8D-1DF7E7E50402@ieee.org>

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Eugene Y Chang via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
    > Hmmmm….. is ground station positioning more about geographic topology
    > or managing subscriber density? I suspect it is easier to manage
    > subscriber density (and aggregate traffic) by building higher capacity
    > ground stations than by distributing ground stations.

Until they have satellite to satellite routing, the ground stations have to
be "near" the users that they serve.

My understanding from this list is that's why they couldn't easily help Tongo: it
was all just ocean "nearby" (and why they can help Ukraine)




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  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-30 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-28 19:53 Dotzero
2022-09-28 20:01 ` Dave Taht
2022-09-28 20:58   ` Dotzero
2022-09-28 21:02     ` David Lang
2022-09-28 21:04     ` Dave Taht
2022-09-28 23:07 ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-28 23:35   ` David Lang
2022-09-29  0:40     ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-29  4:29       ` David Lang
2022-09-29  7:50         ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-29  9:10           ` Sebastian Moeller
2022-09-29  9:14             ` David Lang
2022-09-29 19:38               ` Eugene Y Chang
2022-09-30 12:38                 ` Michael Richardson [this message]
2022-09-30 12:43                   ` Nathan Owens
2022-09-30 17:24                   ` Eugene Chang
2022-09-30 17:26                     ` Nathan Owens
2022-09-30 18:03                       ` Mike Puchol
2022-09-30 21:39 rob currie
2022-09-30 23:56 ` Eugene Chang

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