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>I have been following this thread with some interest. A few months ago a >friend of mine from Fore Systems told me about the 'ACTS' project. NASA and >Ohio-State and quite a few others were doing research into the Gigabit >Satelite Network. There was a test between Sony in Japan and I 'BELIEVE' >JPL in Pasadena of hight def video transmissions over an OC-3 circuit. I >heard something about a quasi commercial deployment of another ACTS >project. Anybody heard anything about this? If enough birds like ACTS were >sent up, this could be a boon for ISP's maybe. Of course I live in this >ideal world where everybody is reasonable, intelligent, and well yea I know >things are just quite the opposite. Which type of satellite network was talked about? If we're talking the big, far-away GEO satellites, my guess is that the latency involved would kill such a project. OTOH, LEO satellites could work (see: Teledesic), but involve a massive investment and lots of satellites. - Jakob
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