[9774] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: connectivity outside the US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jakob Faarvang)
Sun Jun 1 07:50:23 1997
From: jakob@faarvang.com (Jakob Faarvang)
To: "Circuit" <cjs@cinenet.net>, nanog@merit.net
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 11:47:00 GMT
Reply-To: jakob@faarvang.com
In-Reply-To: <199706010726.AAA09936@tahoe.cinenet.net>
>I have been following this thread with some interest. A few months ago a
>friend of mine from Fore Systems told me about the 'ACTS' project. NASA and
>Ohio-State and quite a few others were doing research into the Gigabit
>Satelite Network. There was a test between Sony in Japan and I 'BELIEVE'
>JPL in Pasadena of hight def video transmissions over an OC-3 circuit. I
>heard something about a quasi commercial deployment of another ACTS
>project. Anybody heard anything about this? If enough birds like ACTS were
>sent up, this could be a boon for ISP's maybe. Of course I live in this
>ideal world where everybody is reasonable, intelligent, and well yea I know
>things are just quite the opposite.
Which type of satellite network was talked about? If we're talking the
big, far-away GEO satellites, my guess is that the latency involved
would kill such a project. OTOH, LEO satellites could work (see:
Teledesic), but involve a massive investment and lots of satellites.
- Jakob
