1 Jun
1997
1 Jun
'97
5:33 p.m.
High orbit, geosyncronous sattelites do not stand much of a chance against land lines as the latency on the links is quite high. [...]
Long latency is not automatically bad. It is bad for interactive traffic, but if the bandwidth is high enough to reduce congestion to zero, a large latency doesn't hurt bulky transfers at all. Netnews, for example, could be distributed via satellite without hurting anybody's lookers or feelers.