http://www.businesspundit.com/terrestar-launches-worlds-biggest-commercial-satellite/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.businesspundit.com/terrestar-launches-worlds-biggest-commercial-satellite/comment-page-1/#comment-15394 floating.static Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:26:40 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com/?p=12535#comment-15394 How did they overcome the issue with latency??? I had DirecWay 8 years ago, the satellite internet service resold by DirecTV (now part of Hughes) and I have also designed telephony and video applications using spectrum from satellites - the big problem is that the RTT (round trip time) was VERY long - you can shoot whatever medium you like, but at that distance will you be able to support secure sessions like VPN or any time-delay sensitiver services - beyond simple HTML webpage browsing? Even if all you want to do is pull up generic HTML un-secure webpages, what is that service worth to consumers vs. the obvious HIGH cost to launch, administer, and maintain a geo-sync bird? Interesting application - just would like to know how this is any different than previous failed satellite projects from Iridium to Echostar to even Sirius/XM (still alive, but has yet to turn any kind of profit...) How did they overcome the issue with latency??? I had DirecWay 8 years ago, the satellite internet service resold by DirecTV (now part of Hughes) and I have also designed telephony and video applications using spectrum from satellites – the big problem is that the RTT (round trip time) was VERY long – you can shoot whatever medium you like, but at that distance will you be able to support secure sessions like VPN or any time-delay sensitiver services – beyond simple HTML webpage browsing? Even if all you want to do is pull up generic HTML un-secure webpages, what is that service worth to consumers vs. the obvious HIGH cost to launch, administer, and maintain a geo-sync bird? Interesting application – just would like to know how this is any different than previous failed satellite projects from Iridium to Echostar to even Sirius/XM (still alive, but has yet to turn any kind of profit…)

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