[AusNOG] NBNCo Tails to Plane Seats?

[Paul Jones]

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> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of
> Mark ZZZ Smith
> Sent: Sunday, 10 May 2015 6:48 PM
> To: Paul Wilkins; ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NBNCo Tails to Plane Seats?
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> Ignore the benefits of lower latency to web browsing at your peril.
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>  "Latency: The New Web Performance Bottleneck" (2012)
> https://www.igvita.com/2012/07/19/latency-the-new-web-performance-
> bottleneck/
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> "It's the Latency, Stupid" (1996)
> https://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html
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> 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.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.22
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11af
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Even if we could make a cell size of 200km how much use would that actually be? There isn't the spectrum available to do something that size (say 100 Mhz channel starting at 600 Mhz) and even if there was it would still cost an arm and two legs to build out the required number of cells. Australia is quite a big place :)


Paul.