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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: connectivity outside the US
> High orbit, geosyncronous sattelites do not stand much of a chance against > land lines as the latency on the links is quite high. [...] Long latency is not automatically bad. It is bad for interactive traffic, but if the bandwidth is high enough to reduce congestion to zero, a large latency doesn't hurt bulky transfers at all. Netnews, for example, could be distributed via satellite without hurting anybody's lookers or feelers.
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