Canadian firm to launch global satellite-based Internet service
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The recent explosion of worldwide mobile Internet usage presents a major dilemma to service providers struggling to handle the rapidly increasing data load.
It is a really big problem, but one which a Canadian company believes it can solve.
Mississauga-based Microsat Systems Canada Inc. (MSCI) announced plans on Wednesday to launch a network microsatellites to provide additional bandwidth and increase access to the non web-wired regions of the Earth by 2015. The 78-device strong COMMStellation project will orbit the planet at an altitude of 1,000km, with each satellite capable of transferring up to 12 gigabits of data per second to 20 base stations on the ground, significantly reducing the strain on global fiber optic infrastructure.
Thoughts? They claim to reduce latency by 1/8, which will help improve things. Should be interesting. And nice of a Canadian company to be the first at the table with the 'global' idea to solve the ever increasing 'bandwidth' problem.
I will believe it when I see it. Even at 1/8 of current latency, that is still too much for my liking. Although, for rural areas it could be light years ahead of what they currently have.
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Canadian firm to launch global satellite-based Internet service
