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Saint Petersburg, FL | Who needs those classic things Who need those satelites anyways! just drag a big network wire around the world I say | |
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join:2004-08-09
Detroit, MI
| Re: Who needs those classic things Those classic things handle all most all of the things that you love including your credit card transactions.
The internet back bone is Sat. based.
Wire/Fiber is expensive to install and maintain. We have a Fiber net in the USA that is replacing the old coax net but Arthur C. Clarks idea of bouncing radio off of a satellite is still the fastest extreme bandwidth communication we have.
Hughes Aerospace designed an emitter that can transmit and receive 125+ channels and a satellite can hold hundreds of emitters. That is the reason we have Direct TV( Hughes Aerospace), Sirius and the like. one satellite can handle many different types of traffic. One satellite equals hundreds of OC3 lines- OC3 service is a super high speed service with 155 megabits per second (compare with a T1 at 1.5 megabits per second, or T3 at 45 megabits per second). OC3 is equivalent to 100 T1s or three T3s.
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New Milford, CT | Re: Who needs those classic things I wonder if the IC chips on board grew 'whiskers', causing a short between different sections of the substrate pattern? That was what killed the Galaxy satellite 4 years ago. | |
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Lake Zurich, IL | Re: Who needs those classic things Good clarification -- I was waiting for someone to jump down audiog's throat.
If the internet "backbone" was over satellite, you'd never get better than 800ms on a long haul ping. | |
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join:2004-08-09
Detroit, MI
| said by keyboard5684  :The internet backbone, most of it, has very little to do with sattelites anymore. Most of it is fiber, ever under ocean fiber cables. Your speeds you talk about and services that actually benefit from sattelite is one way. That is because the delay it takes to get to you really does not matter much because it is a steady data stream, like a TV broadcast. Fiber is limited only by electronics so your OC-48 (2.488Gbps) or higher far beats your Sat speeds with about 300 times less latency. No, the cool thing about the internet is it was built to have multi routes it is Sat. and Fiber based. Right now all of the long distance companies are hiding the fiber routes and working on their sat contracts. It makes since to route fiber to Europe, Japan, and Asia but the cost per mile is still in line with having a bird in the sky. Also, when the internet went into the public domain it was kicked off of the sat net that the new internet that the research universities and companies are working on. They have both dark fiber and dark sat. channel routes to connect the world to it.
Right now there is a back log of birds to go up because of NASA, EAS problems with payload delivery. So right now fiber is holding its own.
The public at one time could see on the web the fiber routes and pictures of the IXC CO but because of concerns of terror attacks MCI, AT&T, Global Crossings and others are working to get more birds in the sky in addition to the fiber and coax. | |
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| Re: Who needs those classic things Those are comm links in the event of a catastrophic failure. Those are not used to route data or voice at the moment and won't be unless they are absolute last choice.
You have been watching to much tv. Data and voice over satellite is very expensive. And there is not data routed over a satellite link for any backbone needs at all. No one is stupid enough to do that.
Nasa does not launch the satellites I'd hate to tell you that. A separate company does. And they ship the satellites out to the equator to launch them from a boat or even from places in Europe and china. Nasa releases government only satellites.
As of this writing you can still view their fiber hops that are lit. Even level3 lets you view them.
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join:2002-12-15
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| Re: Who needs those classic things said by DaMaGeINC : said by audiog :The internet back bone is Sat. based.
Wire/Fiber is expensive to install and maintain.
Arthur C. Clarks idea of bouncing radio off of a satellite is still the fastest extreme bandwidth communication we have.
So the satellite is an old but still way ahead of what wire line can offer. You must be kidding me. Sat's are one of the slowest forms of communication we have. Not the fastest. Averaging about 500ms latency and disruptions in bad weather. And the fastest bandwidth we have is fiber for your information. DWDM can handle over 400GBps according to the fiber optic faq. » Fiber Optic Forum FAQ » What is Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)? And saying its way ahead of what wire can offer is just ridiculous Those are lab speeds not real world efforts YET. But it's coming.... Man oh man the new technology is coming. Wonder when Verizon will use this on the poles 
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Manchester, NH | Re: Hmmm... Aliens practicing their skeet shooting...  | |
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Huntington Beach, CA | Re: Hmmm... The beginning of SkyNet. | |
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Canada | Re: Hmmm... too many rednecks with computers for skynet to survive, and AOL can defeat any network in a matter of minutes.(and not the good defeat) | |
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Chattanooga, TN | uh oh o well that sucks. lmao back to building this P4..........bbl | |
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Grail Knight
Who Dares Wins
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Erie, PA | Quick call tech support... Just kill off the cell phone sats. | |
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Patriots Rule
join:2004-06-01
Beverly, MA
| Re: Quick call tech support... said by Grail Knight :Just kill off the cell phone sats. I wonder if their tech support is US based or outsourced?? India anyone!!:D
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Sahuarita, AZ | Re: Quick call tech support... and unplug it and plug it back in | |
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Berkeley, CA
| For the nth time, cell phones don't use satellites. The energy required to propagate a signal that far and still have it be meaningful at the other end would drain the battery on a modern phone in about 30 minutes, I'd guess. Traditional cellular networks use big towers standing on the ground to provide coverage, with building-mounted panels in more urban areas to supplement that.
There are satellite phones, but they're larger, bulkier, and ridiculously expensive (pay per minute, usually something like $2 per minute). That's where those airphones you find on planes get their service, IIRC.
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| Re: Quick call tech support... Iridium's network works sort of like a cell phone. The cells are formed by spotbeams and are 30 miles in diameter. Most of the other satellite phone networks use stationary satellites. You point a panel antenna at the direction of it and select the band/frequency for the satellite you want.
»www.iridium.com/service/iri_serv···viceid=1
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| Mobile Repair I think now would be a good time to have the capability of robotic repair missions. Send a robot into orbit that can be called up for duty as the need arrises.
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join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| SWAG Well, it's probably another case of "whiskers" shorting out the power.
Various metal components grow "whiskers" in space--when these become long enough, they short between circuits.
The solution is easy, and was long used: just add a tad of lead in the alloy.
Problem is, the rabid enviros banned lead--even in tiny amounts where it is desperately needed. So we get whiskers.
Reminds me of the foam insulation on the space shuttle external fuel tank. Didn't have a problem with it falling off and damaging the orbiter until it was re-formulated for environmental reasons. I guess some folks think it's better to reduce those volatiles released into the atmosphere than to keep astronauts alive....
(It's not that I'm anti-environment. It's that both of these possible pollution sources pale in comparison with the wildly toxic by-products of any space launch. I'm sure that both the foam and the total absence of lead in satellites does about as much good as using water-based paint instead of oil-based paint to mark nuclear waste containers....)
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San Diego, CA | Re: SWAG the cylons took it over...:D | |
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MD | aliens.. aliens!!!!! thier here!!!!!!
Or maybe it just got hit by some space junk?
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| It ain't US! I bet they'll figure out a way to blame us Americans again!! Just like its our fault there was an Earthquake and Tsunami! its all the nuculear testing!! Or maybe we overloaded the Sats because our military is over there hogging all the bandwidth...
actually once or twice in Thirty years ain't bad... its a wonder they are still working after this long anyway!
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join:2000-07-04
Lees Summit, MO | 9's? I wonder how many 9's that is. | |
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join:2004-05-10
Youngstown, OH | Space Junk We already turned our orbiting levels of Earth into junkyards with tons of usless satalite parts and such... whats one more piece to add to the pile? | |
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Rancho Palos Verdes, CA | Re: Space Junk It's one more piece of junk for NASA to calculate their shuttle launches around... that is what it is. unless of course if falls out of the sky and burns up. | |
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| Re: Space Junk....NOT The shuttle can only go out to 300 miles or so. That's why the Hubble and the ISS are at that altitude. Geosynchronous Comsats are 23,000 miles out, about 76 times as far. And Geo Comsats don't fall back to Earth. They use the last of their fuel to boost themselves out to a graveyard orbit.
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Who Dares Wins
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Erie, PA | All the space junk could buy every forum member in BBR a new machine or two every year for the rest of our lives and then some. | |
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join:2004-11-02
Joyce, WA | This is why Sat BB won't fly It is simply to centralized and not robust enough.
Never mind Caps, latency, and oh my the price. | |
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join:1999-12-17
Los Angeles, CA
| Solar Storm? Is the trouble the bad solar weather we're having?
We've had S3, R3, and even G4 solar conditions. This can impact satellite operations. For details see »sec.noaa.gov/advisories/ for definitions and »sec.noaa.gov/alerts/warnings_timeline.html for the current warnings and conditions.
Things should be expected to be screwy. | |
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join:2002-06-25
Bountiful, UT
| Cyber-War/Terrorism? Perhaps hackers were able to access a ground station controller terminal and shut the birds down? Or through a earth terminal of their own, accessed the satty controls to shut it down or blasted it with so much power that it shut itself down? Not likely but possible???? This could be a form of cyber-war/terrorism at work....hackers or terrorist going after our communications infrastructure. | |
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