[FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again

[Gary Schiltz]

That's cool, but this type of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites seem to me
more sutible for ubiquitous low bandwidth communication, e.g. satellite
phones. I don't know how well it would scale - for example, I doubt that
millions of people could simultaneously get their full megabit from a small
LEO constellation. One alternative that looks intriguing to me is
Facebook's Aquila drone, that flies at about 20km altitude - still low
enough for microwave broadband communication, but high enough to avoid
commercial air traffic.

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
wrote:

> Space X just launched the first 10 (of 70) of Iridium NEXT low-earth
> satellites.
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> https://www.iridium.com/company/industryleadership/iridiumcertus
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> It’s not high bandwidth (about a 1MB/sec), but should be lower latency
> than HughesNet, Wildblue, etc.
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> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Nick Thompson <
> nickthompson at earthlink.net>
> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Date: *Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 11:13 AM
> *To: *'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again
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> No BroadBand at my farm in Central Massachusetts.  Awaiting Gary’s
> International Assistance.  Remember a few years back when Venezuela was
> supplying cut-rate oil to low income people in New England?
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> Just Sayin’
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> Nick
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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> Clark University
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Gary
> Schiltz
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:43 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again
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> I have been working here in Ecuador to provide internet access to poorly
> served areas, and it is a challenge, albiet not an insurmountable one.
> Wireless technology from smallish companies like Ubiquiti, Mikrotik, and
> Mimosa to name a few, is pretty inexpensive, even here where import duties
> are high. The big challenge where I'm working is getting line-of-sight
> between nodes, where there is a lot of dense forest cover over 20 meters
> high.
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> One thing that I found interesting in the article that Jochen linked to is
> that the US FCC defines broadband as 25mbps down / 3mbps up. Maybe I'm just
> used to it, but I find about 2up/1down plenty even for video streaming.
> More is always better, of course :-)
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> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
> wrote:
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> Santa Fe, and New Mexico in general, is interesting in that regard.
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> But then there is a lot of the countryside that is left out of this. I
> really like the idea of making the Country(side) important. In NM there
> issues with the tribal lands which are poorly served, but it's getting
> better.
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