No, I Don't Want to Know How Big Your Data Is
The satellite business has developed a bandwidth obsession. Really, it’s nothing to apologize for. After decades as one of the most capacity-constrained communications technologies, the industry has lately been enjoying an explosion of effective bandwidth on orbit. First it was Geostationary High-Throughput Satellites (GEO, HTS), then Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO), then the coming rush of GEO Very High-Throughput Satellites (VHTS) and Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) capacity. Modem technologies on the ground have kept raising the bar. Throughput is skyrocketing, capacity prices are falling, and the bill...