On 5/03/2022 7:38 pm, Dick Roy wrote:

 

 

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From: Starlink [mailto:starlink-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net] On Behalf Of Ulrich Speidel
Sent: Friday, March 4, 2022 4:14 PM
To: David Lang
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Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink Digest, Vol 12, Issue 6

 

True, but Starlink is designed as a high bandwidth, low latency (OK, we

won't mention their bufferbloat issues again here), and (currently) low

user density service.

 

Bandwidth-wise, good old Shannon and Hartley are agnostic about whether

you divide your channel between 1 or a million users.

[RR] But they are assuming a “single” channel in the time domain.  When you can take advantage of other dimensions (eg. space) to create more channels, (aka SDMA) the capacity goes up!

Taken as read - but it's beside the point. Shannon-Hartley allows you to do what was proposed - turning a channel that supplies a small number of users with a lot of capacity each into one that supplies a large number of users with a little capacity each, and of course if you add diversity (space, polarisation, ...) then this applies even more so. But the point is that each communication system is designed around an expectation of how many users will access it, and that you can't simply take an existing technology and somehow assume that it will work with a larger number of users just because it's theoretically possible. Basically, you can't simply throw more dishys at the problem if you need to serve more users.

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