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- From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: Maximum line latency
- Organization: ZOOiD BBS
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 16:48:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul20.164841.4101@zooid.guild.org>
- References: <1992Jul12.040736.10614@werple.pub.uu.oz.au> <1992Jul16.164112.24985@zooid.guild.org> <1992Jul18.141604.4148@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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- 70465.203@compuserve.com writes:
- >It's unlikely in the extreme that there'd ever be *two* satellites
- >involved. If you work out the geometry, anyplace that a geosynch orbit
- >satellite just above the horizon to the *east* of you can't talk to
- >can be talked to by one that is above your *western* horizon.
-
- Unfortunately communication satellites often concentrate their signal
- strength on just part of of the planet. Also there very easily could
- not be two available satellites on the horizon.
-
- >The CCITT can write all the standards they want, but they can't change
- >the laws of physics. The delay *will* be more than "a few tenths of a second".
-
- Five tenths of a second is a few tenths of a second. I forget exactly
- what the allowable delay is.
-
- Ross Ridge
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