Re: (PM) The Wan card

Florian Lohoff (flo@mini.gt.owl.de)
Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:33:18 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Jake Messinger wrote:

> >
> > 64 Mbit??
>
> This is what the guy told me. I know this much about satellites--> ( )
> He said it was a 64 satellite downlink. Maybe if someone else on the list
> has any experience with satellite newsfeeds, they could help me out.

Sattelite Downlinks (Known from planet connect http://www.planetc.com)
is about 128KBit/s but it is !NOT IP! so you need a special receiver
and a special card for a normal PC.

On the other hand are bidirectional Sat-IP connections which are normally
64KBit/s or a multiple of this (128 196) etc ..

The biggest feed i heard of is 220MBit/s which are multiple MPEG
stream (Digital TV broadcast) but this is Unidirectional.

Flo

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