Cher Colleagues,
Yes, that's the point!...with all due respect to our distinguished
colleague, fried bird and rainfade do both cause degredation, "albeit not
for long" as I wrote, tongue in cheek, and in differing amounts (ie, bird
drops dead quickly & falls from VSAT feed!). And don't forget snow & ice &
winter storms in the north & the south. Weird things happen in rural
installations in the bush, too, for example. It's not like downtown NYC,
Vancouver, Toronto or London with a nice chain link fence around every
securely hidden rooftop VSAT. Balls get thrown near rural schools too,
things get hit-ask any parent, anywhere!
The question is not what's 'neat', but what is practical and useful that
we in this industry can do to provide <TCP & IP throughput recovery over
satellite> at low costs on low cost VSAT terminals. It's always nice to
think of multi-million dollar systems, but most of the world is not going
to have these everywhere...it's not like McDonalds or ATM machines we see
everywhere...they're going to have cheap little VSAT's and these unexciting
problems either in SCPC, SCPC-FDMA or SCPC-DAMA are going to effect those
communities massively as increasingly we will see packet switched
communications for everything based on ITU H.323. The issue is not how bad
a link we feel like giving them, 'that we rich westerners can tolerate',
but how good a link we can make for them, even on frankly limited
budgets....maybe a little more ASIC work needs to suggested to be done,
here, too?
Maybe this is not exciting enough a problem for many people to think
about, [not enough money], but we think it's important outside the
industrialized world and we're not too embarrassed to mention it because 1)
it needs to be thought about, and 2) that's where most of the future growth
in the satellite industry for IP based services of all kinds is going to
happen, we believe...and there is money and satellite industry growth
opportunities in 'them thar hills' providing new IP based services-even for
what we call "extreme thin routes"...where the other 2/3 of the planet
Earth's population lives!
Respectfully,
Charles A. Ross
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Charles A. Ross
President
ACANTHUS Corporation
&
BEEDNET Group
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