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?
Tag: satellites
Three of the best: Geoff Huston
Here are your top three Geoff Huston blog posts from 2017.
APNIC 44: Examining satellite communication
Jon Brewer and Ulrich Speidel present two informative and futuristic talks about satellite communication at APNIC 44.
Cook Islands Internet set to get a whole lot faster
Connecting to the Manatua Polynesian Cable will greatly improve the Cook Islands Internet service availability, latency and capacity in the coming years.
Look up!
Geoff Huston examines the potential of new satellite Internet projects that promise to offer high-speed, low-cost Internet services to rival fibre.
Life on an Internet Satellite Link
How do shared satellite Internet links affect TCP connections?
Event Wrap: PITA 19
The theme was “Developing Smart Islands” at PITA 19, held recently in Nukualofa, Tonga from 20 to 24 April 2015
Is your satellite link oscillating?
Guest post: As part of a 2014 project supported by ISIF Asia and Internet NZ, we’ve been going to a number of satellite-connected islands in the Pacific on behalf of PICISOC to see whether we could make better use of their satellite links using network-coded TCP.