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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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- Date: 18 Jul 92 18:16 MDT
- Subject: Re: Maximum line latency
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- Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org> writes:
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- >markd@werple.pub.uu.oz.au (Mark Delany) writes:
- >>>I've heard rumors
- >>>of high latency satellite links and the like, but these are not
- >>>subjects I know anything about.
- >>
- >>You need to add at least a second for a satellite link.
-
- >I believe CCITT standards limit the delay to only a few tenths of
- >a second. Specfically I remember that one satallite hop was ok,
- >but two satallite hops would create too long of delay.
-
- Excuse me?
-
- The *minimum* delay for a satellite link is just short of 1/2 second!
- The signal has to go from the earth station to the satellite (23k miles)
- from the satellite to the other earth station (23k miles). That's 46k
- miles. Then the echo has to travel the same path in the opposite
- direction. That's a total of 92k miles. The signals travel at the
- speed of light (186k miles per second) 92/186 = .49...
-
- 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.
-
- 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".
-
- (BTW, I didn't bbother figuring out theextra distance the signal travels
- due to the satellit not being directly overhead. Best case is directly
- overhead which makes uplink 19k miles (23k - 4k radius of Earth). Worst
- case is satellite on horizon. right triangle 23k^2 + 4k^2 = 23345^2
- looks like it doesn't matter much....)
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