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
• Cyberstar - competing satellite subsidiary of Loral
  • Deal with Adaptec
  • Offer Net access by mid-1998
• Atmospheric "satellites"
  • SkyStation
  • 2 - 10 Mbps
  • 250 Sky Station platforms, one above every major city in the world.
  • about 21 km (70,000 feet)

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Last modified: Mon Jul 13 10:09:07 PDT 1998