Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

[Crist Clark <cjc+nanog () pumpky net>]

It’s not like Starlink is anything brand new. Iridium and Globalstar both
do Internet from LEO. It wasn’t their primary service, voice was/is, but
they could do it in a half-a** manner.

Starlink isn’t going to become big in China without bowing to the GFW
‘cause how do you bill for it if you don’t meet the local authorities’
rules?

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 1:44 PM Nathan Stratton <nathan () robotics net> wrote:

> I mix Starlink and Comcast over two openvpn tunnels to my datacenter in
> Ashburn.
>
> > <>
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> nathan stratton
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>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 3:38 PM Matt Erculiani <merculiani () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if anyone out there was trying to
> > mix their StarLink kit and existing broadband service to optimize
> > performance and/or add redundancy though.
> >
> > The underlying technologies will change, but what people try to do with
> > them will remain relatively unchanged.
> >
> > Back 20 years ago people were talking about their Frame Relay P2P
> > services, now they talk about their Ethernet P2P services.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 1:10 PM Aaron C. de Bruyn <aaron () heyaaron com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:39 AM Matt Erculiani <merculiani () gmail com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think the best way to think about what 10 years from now will look
> > > > like is to compare 10 years ago to the present:
> > > > https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-April/thread.html
> > >
> > > Multi-homing your DSL connection?
> > > I can't wait to multi-home my 10x10 array of StarLink satellites in a
> > > few years...
> > >
> > > -A
> >
> >
> > --
> > Matt Erculiani
> > ERCUL-ARIN