Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine
nanog08 at mulligan.org
nanog08 at mulligan.org
Tue Mar 1 20:07:01 UTC 2022
Kinda like sending Captain Kirk on a space launch. Amazing marketing!
On 3/1/22 11:41, Phineas Walton wrote:
> This is more of a brand image / marketing stunt for Starlink. A pretty
> ingenious way to market which will heavily pay off long term. To them,
> this is cheap for how much attention it’s getting them.
>
> Phin
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 6:36 PM Crist Clark <cjc+nanog at pumpky.net
> <mailto:cjc%2Bnanog at pumpky.net>> wrote:
>
> So they’re going to offer the service to anyone in a denied area
> for free somehow? How do you send someone a bill or how do they
> pay it if you can’t do business in the country?
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 4:39 PM Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net> wrote:
>
> On 2/28/22 16:17, Michael Thomas wrote:
>
> > As a practical matter how does this help? You need to have base
> > stations/dishes, right? Can they be beefy ones that can pump
> out
> > gigabytes that would be capable of backfilling the load? Or
> would it
> > need to be multiple in parallel? Wouldn't that bandwidth be
> constrained
> > by the number of visible satellites in the constellation? I
> wonder if
> > they've ever even tested it with feeding into an internet
> facing router.
> > Could tables on the satellites explode?
>
> If there aren't fixed Internet-connected earth stations
> line-of-sight to
> the satellite that's serving the remote terminal, Starlink
> will relay
> satellite-to-satellite until a path to an Internet-connected
> earth
> station is in reach.
>
> From the linked article:
>
> "Musk has previously stressed Starlink’s flexibility of
> Starlink in
> providing internet service. In September, Musk talked about
> how the
> company would use links between the satellites to create a
> network that
> could provide service even in countries that prohibit SpaceX from
> installing ground infrastructure for distribution.
>
> As for government regulators who want to block Starlink from
> using that
> capability, Musk had a simple answer.
>
> “They can shake their fist at the sky,” Musk said."
>
> --
> Jay Hennigan - jay at west.net
> Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
> 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
>
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