[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk/SIP over satellite?

[David Brodbeck]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dorn Hetzel [mailto:asterisk at dorn.hetzel.org]

> 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...

I've heard them called "bent pipes" for that reason.  They just take
whatever comes in, amplify it, and turn it around.  There's practically no
latency in such a system other than what's imposed by the round trip.

The driving force in satellite design for years and years was *simplicity*.
You're putting something up where you can't reach it to fix it.  It's going
to be bombarded with radiation that degrades unshielded solid-state devices.
It's costing you millions of dollars to get it there.  You don't want to
build it any fancier than you absolutely have to.