[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk/SIP over satellite?

[Dorn Hetzel]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:23:07PM -0600, Eric Wieling aka ManxPower wrote:
> Matt wrote:
> >Tom Hayden wrote:
> >
> >>I would imagine the latency would be less than desireable, but I've
> >>heard that some of the newer sats actually have decent latency.
> >
> >
> >So, are they closer to the ground or has the speed of light gone up...
> >
> 
> As I understand it the electronics are able to forward data much faster. 
>  i.e. We have the same speed-of-light latency, but the other things 
> that cause latency are faster.  The older sats apparently REALLY sucked 
> at latency in their electronics.

I *really* don't believe that's true, since most of the older
generation of comsats are just big analog cross-band amplifiers-
in-the-sky and therefore have only about as much latency as the
length of their wires or waveguides...

-Dorn