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To: djane who wrote (5491)3/22/1999 12:58:00 PM
From: djane  Read Replies (1) of 10852
 
Post on Spaceway (via last mile thread)

Talk : Communications : 'LAST MILE' TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here

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To: Raymond Duray (3185 )
From: WTC
Saturday, Mar 20 1999 1:48PM ET
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Spaceway has made some adjustments in their service offering mix from 1995, when
they actually "unveiled" their international constellation plan and began working on the
worldwide spectrum allocations. They started with a T1 up and a T1 down (with an
option to make it a 2xE1 where that made sense in the world.) There were a lot of
self-interference and cost challenges with that data rate up, and it appears from this last
press release that they solved those problems by taking the service further into the
asynchronous realm. If we believe Hughes's own press release, they have about taken
themselves out of reliable VoIP upstream data rate range, and are clearly out of
videoconferencing data rate range. I like Spaceway, but is was conceived as a data
service platform, and now has migrated to that with an internet orientation (asynch.) It
seems like this could be a very good hatchet for splitting kindling, but very poor used as
a hammer for driving nails. We should not criticize a hatchet for driving nails poorly.

The beauties of a GEO for broadband data are system simplicity vs. a LEO or MEO,
and the financial seperability of continental markets. I don't have to build to serve the
whole world (well, 80 degrees north to 80 degrees south) just to get my first market up
and running. That is a real tough nut to crack for LEO systems -- huge financial drain to
complete a global system before ringing the cash register even once.

The surprise to me is a press release that "unveils" Spaceway. Seems to me that
Spaceway has the oldest broadband satellite system filing at the FCC of those that are
still alive. Certainly older than Teledesic, Elipso, and Skybridge.
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