BANDWIDTH - Global Wireless

• Teledesic - Craig McCaw and Bill Gates
  • 288 satellites in 565 km LEO.
  • 64-2 Mbps down-uplinks - globally
  • test satellite in orbit now
  • Ka band - 19.1-28.6 GHz
  • Service target - 2003
• Cyberstar - satellite subsidiary of Loral
  • Multicast at 29Mbps in 1998
  • Digital Movie distribution in 1998
• SkyStation Atmospheric "satellites"
  • 2 - 10 Mbps
  • 250 Sky Station platforms , one above every major city in the world.
  • altitude: 21 km (70,000 feet)
  • First station to be deployed 2002

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