[AusNOG] NBNCo Tails to Plane Seats?

[Mark ZZZ Smith]

Ignore the benefits of lower latency to web browsing at your peril.


 "Latency: The New Web Performance Bottleneck" (2012)
https://www.igvita.com/2012/07/19/latency-the-new-web-performance-bottleneck/


"It's the Latency, Stupid" (1996)
https://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html




Before these ultra-high latency satellites are launched by NBN, why not spend a couple of million investigating where much lower latency TV white spaces could be used instead? (probably don't needed to spend a couple of million, but compared to the $2B cost of NBN's satellites, it's chicken feed.) While it probably isn't possible to avoid launching the NBN satellites, using TV white spaces where applicable would increase the available capacity on them for those who have no choice.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11af
 


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From: Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com>
To: "ausnog at ausnog.net" <ausnog at ausnog.net> 
Sent: Sunday, 10 May 2015, 15:23
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NBNCo Tails to Plane Seats?







I think that most people who advocate satellites don't have an appreciation as to how much impact latency has on end-user experience. I think satellite should only be the absolute last resort once every other terrestrial and therefore much low latency option has been considered and isn't possible.
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Mark,

The issue I guess is that there's an enormous productivity gain in delivering basic internet (email/web browsing), for which you don't need low latency nor especially high bandwidth. This is why I've always believed satellite  to be a natural fit for delivering a baseline service in rural/regional areas where terrestrial connectivity isn't cost effective. This is born out in  experience by the US market, and the Australian geography is even more disperse once you get outside the population centres.


Paul Wilkins 


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