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Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink "beam spread"
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2022, Brandon Butterworth via Starlink wrote:

> With Starlink capacity being multiplexed per Dishy and uplink
> and downlink capacity equal on each satellite there doesn't appear
> to be any sharing gain to be had there warranting a CDN in space.

don't forget that there are also the laser links, they could link you to a 
shared space CDN, and they also 'complicate' the uplink/downlink calculations 
for any one satellite.

David Lang