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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Stone wrote: > Tom Brough wrote: > >> How feasable would it be to create a Broadband only Satellite >> Communication System (as an open source project of course) ? > > Asterisk over Satelite for example ?? > > Latency is WAAAAAAY too much of an issue... Only if you use geostationary satellites. If you can solve the radio, and dynamic routing, issues of talking satellite to satellite with low orbit satellites then the latency ought to about as good as optical fibre (better for some parts of the world). At least two organisations have already solved such problems, so it isn't as though it is impossible. The difficult part is having the capital to put up enough satellites to keep good coverage. Rather different levels of finance than say shipping machines to the Phillipines. The amateur radio people have put up experimental comms micro-satellites piggy-backing of other launch vehicles. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC6TI5GFXfHI9FVgYRAsblAJ0UtVqCilmmlmbF/J/Y4TsVoVWGwwCeIDMt vuIUX88QmnUSOQ3kF2TyVP8= =idUD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html