[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk/SIP over satellite?

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

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.