No topic -- Photo in its context might be interesting...

Thu Jul 10 05:19:13 UTC 2014

On 7/9/14 7:24 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer at mauigateway.com> wrote:
>> Just to be fast, the article said 1.5Mbps
>> Also, I completely missed that there was a page 2.  It looks like they use
>> Iridium.  Here is some pricing.  Just the first thing I found:
>>
>> http://www.sattransusa.com/irprpl.html
>>
>> Plan          Monthly Amount    Monthly Allowance  Cost per 1000 Bytes
>> Plan SBD 0      $27.00            0 Bytes              $1.15
>> Plan SBD 12     $35.10           10,000 Bytes          $1.05
>> Plan LBS 8*     $28.78            8,000 Bytes          $1.78
> Hi Scott,
>
> If it's Iridium they aren't doing 1.5mbps. Iridium has Short Burst
> Data (SBD), a messaging service capable of sending and receiving a 2kB
> message a couple times a minute and they have RUDICS, a 1200bps or
> 2400bps (not kbps or mbps) synchronous serial service. They also have
> a product which gangs enough RUDICS channels together to get a 56k
> modem speed. Higher speed claims are "with compression."
Russian Satellite Communications Company operates geostationary
satellites as part of intelsat and eutelsat. Molniya insorfar as I'm
aware still exists and is a constellation of high elliptical orbit
communications satellites  with a 12 hour orbit, it's specifically
useful over the poles.

in one of the photos on the orignal live journal is an inmarsat terminal
onbaord the vessel.

http://nikitskij.livejournal.com/

the ship is the icebreaker yamal which at 23000 tons is a pretty big
platform to mount hardware on.
>
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