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| Author: | Montgomery, J. |
| Title: | Fiber in the sky |
| Journal: | BYTE
1997 : NOV, VOL. 22:11, p. 58-72 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMICS INTERNET SATELLITE TELEVISION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Broadband satellite systems stand ready to bring multimegabit data rates worldwide. Sounds great. What's the catch? Something special is in the air: your data. Or, at least it's about to be. The technological and regulatory hurdles to create true high-speed satellite networks have fallen. We've seen low- and mid-bandwidth system such as Motorola's Iridium and Hughes' DirecPC. But those were almost a parlor trick compared to the promise of 2 Mbps, 20 Mbps, and even 155 Mbps streaming down from the sky. |
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