Comment by baby_souffle
6 months ago
If anything they'll go for the lucrative customers that _need_ a signal to go faster through vacuum than through glass.
Maybe some decent revenue offering sat to cell for the traditional carriers.
6 months ago
If anything they'll go for the lucrative customers that _need_ a signal to go faster through vacuum than through glass.
Maybe some decent revenue offering sat to cell for the traditional carriers.
There is no workload that latency sensitive is there? If it is you just move the server where it's needed. I.e. you do HFT next to the stock exchange.
Definitely not a usecase for Starlink.
For the microseconds-chasers, there's microwave relay links, say between Chicago and New York (ref e.g. https://bullseye.ac/blog/economics/inside-the-world-of-high-...). Sending a signal up a few hundred km and down again a few hundred km adds way too much latency, and signal-hopping between fast-moving satellites adds way too much jitter for "such applications".
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