audiog
join:2004-08-09
Detroit, MI
| Re: Who needs those classic things 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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