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how is this going to work

I was wondering the same thing. There is not a way that voice traffic could make it on time. It is the same reason why the old over-seas calls where so horrible, because they used satellites. With fiber running to most countries now it is no longer as bad.

DirecWay service has an enormous amount of latency. I guess another thing is a jitter problem where the time for travel of the packet changes often.

Then there is the clouds problem. When a bad storm rolls in there goes your phone. Reliability is something we have all come to expect with our phones, more than our internet connections.

[text was edited by author 2003-05-02 13:44:46]

reply to ntguru911
Spaceway is a whole different animal than DirecWay. Operating in globally assigned Ka-band spectrum, SPACEWAY employs high- performance, on-board digital processing, packet switching and spot-beam technology to offer single-hop connectivity, regardless of location.

There is no NOC or terrestrial routing involved. Oh, this is business-class service we're talking about. The DW6040 is going to be really expensive. Since you'll need a DW4020 too, your looking at around $2000* just for hardware.

* Estimated price.
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*Frank* Earthlink SRS. G11 1410.78, WinME. 4.0.3.9_P8. Cache 1 MB.

I read that too but it doesn't say if they will be high orbit (like now) or low orbit satellites. If they're high orbit single hop may help a little but most of the latency is still unvoidable and caused by the sheer distance the signal has to travel.

reply to Rfsjr2
"SPACEWAY employs high- performance, on-board digital processing, packet switching and spot-beam technology to offer single-hop connectivity,"

It's still going to suck. That's why the sat-phone companies (e.g. Iridium) use LOW EARTH ORBIT, not geosync. Of course, the sat-phone companies went bankrupt in a big way because the market is tiny and getting smaller every day.