|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| home | help | back | first | fref | pref | prev | next | nref | lref | last | post |
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> To: Ryan Wilkins <ryan@deadfrog.net>, Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com> Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 01:33:50 +0000 In-Reply-To: <E409AC0C-F07C-483D-90AD-41BBEC96E642@deadfrog.net> Cc: "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron@heyaaron.com>, NANOG mailing list <nanog@nanog.org> Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org http://www.xiplink.com is who we work with (and sell). Don't mean to advertise on NANOG, more of an FYI and place for those who care to learn something. I hate the fact that satellite is looked at like a white unicorn, it's a pretty cool solution that will perform day in and out for as long as you need it to. On 4/30/13 6:29 PM, "Ryan Wilkins" <ryan@deadfrog.net> wrote: >I was going to mention this but failed to do so. > >At the very least, do some testing first to make sure that the latency >isn't going to introduce unforeseen issues. Case in point, the Chicago >satellite-based network that I manage is sometimes used for Police / Fire >/ EMS dispatching. The City's Computer Aided Dispatch system ended up >crashing during an early test when it was discovered that it couldn't >handle the high latencies encountered on satellite links. This required >the vendor to adjust the code to deal with these issues. Granted this is >an extreme example, but the point is that the physics of satellite links >can do all sorts of things to applications that one might not expect. > >Cheers, >Ryan Wilkins > >On Apr 30, 2013, at 9:13 PM, Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com> wrote: >>=20 >> They will not be happy with VSAT latency (typically 700ms though >> physics says you can never do better than 550, and that's for the >> space segment alone) if they are running RDP, VNC, Citrix, or similar >> technologies. Sorry for being a buzzkill, Warren. :) > > >
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| home | help | back | first | fref | pref | prev | next | nref | lref | last | post |