Maybe for leo. There are some nasty atmospheric absorption bands and ionospheric effects that pretty much limits you to 30 GHz and below for geo. I know the navy uses FSO with lasers to satellites but that is pretty exotic.
Are you predicting the end of the world as we know it? Shall I get my nikes and koolaid? ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Scrivner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 10:35 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] US Broadband Internet Satellite Scheduled forLaunchin2011 (PC World) by PC World: Yahoo! Tech >I predict we will see FSO and millimeter wave used on satellite Internet > delivery within the next 5 years (rain fade and all). You can call me > Netstradamus. :-) > Scriv > > > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Chuck McCown - 3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I don't think any FSO or millimeter wave will work from geosynchronous >> orbit. Too much rain fade. I would think X band will be the upper >> limit. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "John Scrivner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 10:04 PM >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] US Broadband Internet Satellite Scheduled for >> Launchin2011 (PC World) by PC World: Yahoo! Tech >> >> >> > Spot beams for frequency reuse, FSO, millimeter wave. I can see a few >> ways >> > to do terabytes per second. >> > Scriv >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Chuck McCown - 3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> Is that even possible. What is the best modulation method currently >> >> in >> >> use? >> >> Divide 100 Gig by the best modulation method and then someone please >> tell >> >> me >> >> there is a space segment that broad that can legally be used. >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >> >> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 8:07 PM >> >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] US Broadband Internet Satellite Scheduled for >> Launch >> >> in2011 (PC World) by PC World: Yahoo! Tech >> >> >> >> >> >> > bawwwwhahahahahahahaha >> >> > >> >> > In 3 years 100gig won't be nearly enough for 2mil subs. >> >> > >> >> > Sure be nice to have a good sat up there though. >> >> > marlon >> >> > >> >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> >> > From: "George Rogato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >> >> > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 2:48 PM >> >> > Subject: [WISPA] US Broadband Internet Satellite Scheduled for >> >> > Launch >> >> > in >> >> > 2011 (PC World) by PC World: Yahoo! 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