> How 'general' are such satelliet connections?
>
> Down here, I suspect over 1/3 of all inbound will be on sat. Is a 1 in 3
> chance of doubling the delay/bandwidth product worth the risk?
>
> It might be interesting to review the extent of homebrew assymetrix/sat
> inbound deployment. Are we already above critical mass in terms of how many
> significant transits outside the US mainstream lie on this kind of path?
> When I last looked, there were few online resources which discussed this as
> deployment instead of concept, but I think thats less likely to be true now.
i'm involved in several projects to extend Internet into countries which do not,
and will not, have significant terrestrial backhaul due to longterm economic or
political reasons.
some of these countries are looking to satelite as the only method to cost
effectively bring this resource to their people.
i have one client who has installed a 2Mbit link, single hop to the north
american backbone. At this point, they are content that the inherent delays
in effect act as a throttle for individual connections, thereby allowing
more users to concurrently use the link, without one user eating the whole
pipe. now that that project has become operational, they are looking at
increasing the bandwidth, or putting in more links, in order to service the
growing desire for the resource.
i would say that from a world perspective, improving the performance of
TCP over satelite is an important goal.
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