10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

Mon Mar 29 05:25:02 UTC 2021

On 3/29/21 07:21, Eric Kuhnke wrote:

> The US State Department is already a large customer for dedicated 
> transponder capacity, in C-band hemispheric and Ku beams in some weird 
> places in the world.
>
> As a randomly chosen example if you take a look at the roof of the UK 
> embassy in Kabul, there's a nice 4 meter size Andrew/Commscope compact 
> cassegrain dish up there. Pretty typical thing already for embassies, 
> the big difference would be that that they'll have more market options 
> for high-throughput service.

Exactly... those would be the kinds of places grumpy dudes with guns 
can't just show up. However, that does not prevent the local gubbermint 
from jamming signals to the extent they can without infringing on the 
sovereign rights of the consulate.

Mark.