Gilder on G*/fiber complimentary relationship (via y*/g* thread)
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GSTRF and Fiber
by: ZephyrFrank (38/M/Santa Clara, CA)
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Here's a quote from Gildertech:
"With booming worldwide demand for communications services, focused on
the global Internet,
LEOs can become worldwide carriers of last resort.
Fiber optics and microwave are not competitors to
the LEOs; they are complements. As fiber networks
span the globe, reaching hundreds of cities with broadband services, and
microwave links proliferate, the market for
local access facilities will boom. Many areas lack basic infrastructure in the last
mile. Others lack Internet connections, even in developed countries. With
Internet traffic growing 200 fold over the last two and one half years, stress will
mount on all the world's aging telecominfrastructure still optimized for voice.
Covering the entire global population at once, low earth orbit devices can
command a potential market limited chiefly by the ability of engineers to
finance, build,
launch, and maintain these complex systems.
"Most famous is Teledisc, the venture initiated
five years ago by Craig McCaw and Bill Gates. It
will ultimately field some 288 satellites ... [The source thinks Teledisc could
succeed.]
"The simpler and cheaper 48 LEO
CDMA mobile system
from GlobalStar,launched
by Loral (LOR) and
Qualcomm, may well
have the most immediate
impact. It offers the possi-
bility of global roaming
for the increasing millions
of CDMA customers
around the world. But
GlobalStar lacks the
broadband capabilities of
Teledesic and the
Motorola stunner.
All these LEOs attest
to the imperious pressures
of the lightspeed limit in
an era of gigabit per sec-
ond communications."
Posted: Mar 10 1999 2:09AM EST as a reply to: Msg 1 by YahooFinance |
