How is Cideras overlay satellite content distribution network different than terrestrial content distribution networks?
Let me give you an example. In our system customers buy 45M bit/sec of throughput, but they are actually getting 60M bit/sec. There is a huge difference between 45 and 60M bit/sec and it all has to do with error correction. There is huge error correction built in to satellite services making the services wildly reliable. Terrestrial Internet providers actually have to send three copies of data just to make sure they get one copy correct. So it’s a big deal for them. Why do they have to send three copies of the data? Because of errors and packet loss and the Internet. See if you use the public Internet to move your data around you have to be prepared to deal with massive packet loss and that’s very expensive. With satellite, packet loss is minimal. In the past both AT&T and UUNET have said that they’re “looking at satellite” as a service delivery option for their customers. Yeah. Everybody, I think all the big guys are evaluating things like this but it just takes a long time for them t
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