Satellite communication and regulation
Guest Post: New satellite Internet products will need to contend with a variety of complicated regulatory questions.
Solar storms and the Internet
Guest Post: What amount of damage can powerful blasts of charged particles do to today’s Internet?
Everything you wanted to know about LEO satellites, part 4: Why direct to site?
Guest Post: The final part in the LEO series explores the implications of the direct-to-site model currently being used by LEO providers.
Everything you wanted to know about LEO satellites, part 3: Bandwidth, system capacity and inter-satellite routing
Guest Post: The third part in the LEO satellite series examines issues surrounding the ‘speed’ of the connections.
Everything you wanted to know about LEO satellites, part 2: Constellations, gateways and antennas
Guest Post: In part 2 of the LEO series, Ulrich Speidel examines some questions worth asking of LEO providers.
Everything you wanted to know about LEO satellites, part 1: The basics
Guest Post: Part one in the LEO series explores some key elements that make these satellites different to previous forms of satellite Internet.
Satellite still a necessity for many Pacific Islands
Guest Post: Satellite connectivity is still a necessity for many islands in the Pacific with new technologies making them more relevant.
GEO vs MEO: which satellite solution works best?
Guest Post: Researchers at the University of Auckland are simulating and measuring the bandwidth capacity of medium earth orbit and geostationary satellites, the results of which may surprise.
Striking a balance between bufferbloat and TCP queue oscillation
Guest Post: Does your satellite link have the right amount of queue capacity configured? If not, it may be suffering from bufferbloat.
Should I allow UDP over my satellite link?
Guest Post: Could UDP possibly be worse than small TCP flows? Could TCP be its own worst enemy?