Dallas, TX, United States, 08/31/2021 / News Bureau /
According to Prof. Alan Woodward who is a cyber-security expert from the University of Surrey, the newly launched satellite broadband service from space entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Starlink company has been noticing a series of outages that are caused by pigeons that take gray dishes as a bathtub form themselves causing serious disruptions for the system.
This satellite system is the earthbound end of the Starlink satellite internet system that makes him one of the beta testers of low earth orbits that are also pronounced as LEO. Prof. Woodward is still in the process of investing in the root causes behind these disruptions. Initially, he shares his thoughts, saying that when pigeons sit on the satellite, interpret the satellites’ performance. We cannot say that pigeons are the only problem behind the decreased performance of satellites; however, the investigation is still in the process, considering other factors seriously as well.
OneWeb is a company that is just like Starlink, and this firm recently has launched 34 satellites this week. Starlink is one of those companies that are trying to provide the best satellite internet services. Others include Amazon, Telesat, and some companies in China. Kuiper plans in a satellite internet project of Amazon that launched an assemblage of 3236 satellites. A Canadian company called Telesat has launched 298 satellites in orbit while China is making a big plan to build a whole satellite network of its own. “The technology may be invisible to the end-user,” says Mike Thompson, director for technical development for consultants Access Partnership.
“The provider may run a satellite link in a town where fiber is unavailable, for example, and use it to feed the local broadband pipe.”
Prof Woodward said, “I popped it on the kitchen roof primarily because it was the only flat roof and easy to get to. Starlink provides an app that shows obstructions so you can choose the best spot, which saved hours of fiddling around. After connecting it to the router, the dish juggled around for a minute or so. Then I had fast internet”. He added ‘The speeds average about 150-200 megabits per second (Mbps) download speeds and 10-20Mbps upload. There were short dropouts, but nothing that would have interrupted, for example, streaming television that knocks anything else I can obtain here into a cocked hat,’ he said.
“The average bit-rate that individual users experience will reduce as the number of nearby users increases since the system has a finite capacity that it can provide over any given area.”
The amount of reduction will depend on several things, including “how well the system can move capacity from one area to another,” Prof. Michael Fitch says, who is from the University of Surrey.
“In general, a slow but reliable internet connection is more useful than a fast but intermittent one,” says Mr. Thompson. “Interactive applications (like video conferencing) require a continuous connection.” that is another different point of view.
Prof Hugh Lewis of the University of Southampton shares his point of view, saying, “We are already beginning to see a large number of near misses in orbit involving Starlink,” “may soon go beyond what humans or simple algorithms can safely manage,” he further adds. However, Prof. Alan Woodward believes in Starlink. He says, “I was dubious about how good it would be considering it’s receiving signals from objects hurtling past you in low earth orbit, but the whole experience has left me feeling optimistic.”
However, how he thinks depends upon the future of satellite broadband and how we can forget the ‘pigeons.’
Reference
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58061230
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