Call me a dreamer but I think that satellite Internet is what will eventually be used,,,Anyone agree?
5g is going to make it a tougher sell for satellight Internet, but a niche market for coverage in remote areas including boats and airplanes will persist for a long time.
How will you have 5G without lit fiber up and down every street?
I agree it will be used in future. The current 5g companies will make it difficult because they are too much invested in current infrastructure. But definitely anything wireless is going to capture market. Some ideas are sometimes pre mature in market.
Too many problems with satellite internet.. dont see logically how satellite internet will be feasible except for in remote areas.. the major problem is uplink power required to maintain satellite communication. Industry is moving towards IoT and future will have millions of low power devices trying to connect to network. So there isnt a way really for satellite internet to blend into the network. But rural/remote areas would definitely need it.
Sat internet will have its place but not for the 1st world urban masses. 5G device call models are looking at 5Gbps with roadmaps for 10Gbps. Sat networks, in their current designs, can't provide throughput like. They aggregate to a small number of ground stations. They'd need disaggregated ground stations and the intelligence to know which one is the best path. You also have the issues with frequency propagation and weather.
Not a chance. Even if you're running a fully wireless operation in your home / office / whatever, there's still a massive fiber infrastructure at the foundation of nearly all of your connections. Fiber (or at least light-speed technology) is the only technology truly capable of sustaining both the speed and the massive amount of overall traffic required for connectivity on a global scale. A satellite's performance weakens with every new connection, as it's now divided amongst more subscribers. Satellite certainly has its place in remote areas lacking cell towers with underlying fiber, but it's too latent and too unreliable to become a viable option for mass, global implementation.
I’m following OneWeb closely
We won’t even have the current 4G footprint in 5G in 10 years.
No - unless the population of mars or deep space 9 can make up the cost at 1000x margin
Not how it’s imagined today. The latency isn’t a problem to be solved, it’s fundamental and unsolvable. Costs may be a problem to be solved, but it’s best suited to be a one-to-many broadcast solution. If storage were very cheap, I could see a network where a device sync’d huge encrypted blobs of binary data, waiting for a usage key to decrypt it, and using a statistical model to decide you or someone near you is likely to use an item (like a potentially more distributed CDN if somehow you made the costs low enough). But even in that thought experiment it’s hard to imagine it being cheaper than undersea cables.. unless we’re multi-planetary.
Latency for LEO satellites could be lower than for terrestrial internet. Look up Starlink's metrics.
It's the upload speeds that are killer because satellite internet generally is paired with dialup for uploads. There's not transmitters for two way communications.