Subject: [gaia] Samsung wants to deliver the internet via thousands of satellites

From: Marco Zennaro <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:35:03 +0200

From: http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/17/samsung-internet-satellite-cloud/#continued <http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/17/samsung-internet-satellite-cloud/#continued>

"Facebook, Google and SpaceX aren't the only big names envisioning a world blanketed with satellite-based internet access. Samsung has published research proposing Earth-wide internet through a cloud of roughly 4,600 micro satellites. The vehicles would switch between multiple radio frequency bands to deliver over a terabyte per second each, and a total capacity of 1 zettabyte (1 billion terabytes) per month -- enough to handle the world's estimated mobile data traffic in 2028. The RF technology would be relatively inexpensive, so the concept isn't too outlandish.”

The paper is here: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1508/1508.02383.pdf <http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1508/1508.02383.pdf>

Best,
Marco

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