On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 04:33:30PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> - Original Message -
> > From: "Valdis Kletnieks"
>
> > > Why the hostility, Valdis?
> >
> > As I said several times - it's not hard to be 98% or 99% sure you can make
> > all your commitments. However, since predicting the
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:33:30 EST, Jay Ashworth said:
> > From: "Valdis Kletnieks"
> > Remember, we're coming out of a solar minimum. ;)
>
> Are we in fact coming out of it yet? I heard it was getting deeper,
> and that we were looking at a Dalton, if not another Maunder.
Hmm.. guess Sunspots 1
- Original Message -
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks"
> > Why the hostility, Valdis?
>
> As I said several times - it's not hard to be 98% or 99% sure you can make
> all your commitments. However, since predicting the future is an inexact
> science,
> it's really hard to provide a *100% guaran
every
> single customer who wants to book 4 hours on Thursday on short notice.
>
> Like I said - 98% is easy. 100% is hard.
Sure.
But 100% is also your strawman, I believe; no?
Particularly in the specific space we're presently talking about:
iDirect Satellite IP service over tr
On Monday, January 10, 2011 01:28:07 pm Jay Ashworth wrote:
> My motivation for asking the question *here* was of course to get the operator
> perspective on the actual transport, if anyone had any.
I helped a radio station put together a remote trailer using a mobile satellite
system back in 2
- Original Message -
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks"
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:06:32 EST, Kelly Olsen said:
> > That would only happen with an outrageously over-subscribed
> > provider.
>
> OK - I'll feed the troll. What's the proper amount of unused and therefor
> non-revenue-generating capac
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:06:32 EST, Kelly Olsen said:
> That would only happen with an outrageously over-subscribed provider.
OK - I'll feed the troll. What's the proper amount of unused and therefor
non-revenue-generating capacity the operator is supposed to reserve in order to
*guarantee* that ba
On Jan 10, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> I'm looking into satellite-based 2-way IP transport, on the scale of
> SCPC DVB-RCS or iDirect, as an adjunct to the already installed
> "traditional" one-way satellite gear installed in the Frontline DSNG
> truck owned by my new employer, both
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:08:57 EST, Jay Ashworth said:
> Almost all of what I'll need to do will be what the satellite guys call
> "occasional use", ie: "I need a six hour block Thursday night, starting
> at 7pm", as opposed to the "monthly service with an FAP" that most
> people seem to sell.
Wha
This is admittedly a touch end-usery, my apologies...
I'm looking into satellite-based 2-way IP transport, on the scale of
SCPC DVB-RCS or iDirect, as an adjunct to the already installed
"traditional" one-way satellite gear installed in the Frontline DSNG
truck owned by my new employer, both for
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