On 7/9/14 7:24 PM, William Herrin wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
Just to be fast, the article said 1.5Mbps Also, I completely missed that there was a page 2. It looks like they use Iridium. Here is some pricing. Just the first thing I found:
http://www.sattransusa.com/irprpl.html
Plan Monthly Amount Monthly Allowance Cost per 1000 Bytes Plan SBD 0 $27.00 0 Bytes $1.15 Plan SBD 12 $35.10 10,000 Bytes $1.05 Plan LBS 8* $28.78 8,000 Bytes $1.78 Hi Scott,
If it's Iridium they aren't doing 1.5mbps. Iridium has Short Burst Data (SBD), a messaging service capable of sending and receiving a 2kB message a couple times a minute and they have RUDICS, a 1200bps or 2400bps (not kbps or mbps) synchronous serial service. They also have a product which gangs enough RUDICS channels together to get a 56k modem speed. Higher speed claims are "with compression." Russian Satellite Communications Company operates geostationary satellites as part of intelsat and eutelsat. Molniya insorfar as I'm aware still exists and is a constellation of high elliptical orbit communications satellites with a 12 hour orbit, it's specifically useful over the poles.
in one of the photos on the orignal live journal is an inmarsat terminal onbaord the vessel. http://nikitskij.livejournal.com/ the ship is the icebreaker yamal which at 23000 tons is a pretty big platform to mount hardware on.