<I discussed this very issue with my friend and he said that 'we should take up the satellite thing as a temporary measure', 'we' meaning his company. >
Interesting. That is also how I see it, that satellites will be a temporary solution, but temporary meaning about 10 years or so. And if you look around, you find that most temporary solutions tend to hang around. I'd be happy to make a bundle for the next ten years and then gradually draw down over the next 20, if I live that long.
<They're running tests with small cell Gigahertz class radio networks as their longer term solution. Think GSM (Do you have that where you are?) on steroids, only it is built for IP. Bandwidth in the single megabit range with roaming and stuff.>
Yes, we have that. It's sexy but a problem in congested cities. Too much interference. And a problem in the country because of distances. And a problem overseas for lack of transmitters. But it's gonna be killer technology in Des Moines :-)
Also. I think megabit solutions are only temporary. What you need in the longer term are 100's of megabits, which can be delivered from space in K bands. That;s the only way to get real time video across with any kind of variety. That will act as as a decongestant for the bottlenecks so the rest of the net can pass the single megabit stuff around. All this IMHO, of course.
<IPv6 is build to enable this. The current IP-stack (IPv4) does not really enable the neccessary things like roaming and IP-address densities needed. Should be publicly available in a few years if it pans out.>
I'm not a switch type, co can't comment, but believe you. I'll look this up.
In the meantime, where are those guys that went to Newport? Are they sailing around?
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