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cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/5842754
cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/5842702
Germany is financing Ukraine’s access to a satellite internet network operated by French company Eutelsat, Reuters reported on April 4, citing Eutelsat CEO Eva Berneke.
“relatively fast” is not what I wanted to read. It should be done as fast as possible. If in order to keep its ability to communicate efficiently Ukraine is forced to accept the latest delirious US demands, it’s the entire EU that will lose. Big time.
Sadly, part of the reality right now is, that there is no perfect swap-in replacement for what Starlink is being used for, that doesn’t have some caveats. There probably are some problems in just physical availability of terminals and accompanying logistics - although I’d love a better estimate than “relatively fast” as well.
For just military use, you probably dont need super high bandwidth so i dont think that will be an issue. This also wont be used for remotely controlling robotics or drones, so latency going up 1-200ms is not the end of the world. The real important bit is that the troops can communicate and coordinate, get warnings in time, get satellite images, etc.
The coverage is as you say going to be the thing that will take time to scale up, but that can only be sped up so much.