For context, Global bandwidth is somewhere between 2-8 Pbps (2,000-8,000 Tbps) depending on if your measuring fiber public backhaul (like international fiber) or all public and private connections.
100,000 V3 Starlinks equals 100 Pbps 10x-50x the total bandwidth available today. If Starlinks V4s are 5x more capable we are looking at 50x-250x more bandwidth than world has today over the next 10 years.
This may sounds like a supply shock but remember ~2B people don’t have regular access to the internet today, and we are connecting robots (digital and physical agents) to the internet at an accelerating pace. Distributed sensor data collection (on and off planet) is growing. On top of that individual internet usage does steadily increasing.
In 10 years we’re probably going to move two orders of magnitude more information per second around than we do today.
Flight 14 is coming! 🚀
Starship’s first shot at true orbit. According to @elonmusk V3 Starlinks deliver an order of magnitude more capacity than anything flying today. And if the regulators clear it.....the first attempt to catch Starship itself with the tower arms.
This used to look like pure science fiction. Now it’s on the pad timeline for the end of the month 🤯
@engadget depends on which way you look at it… one one hand, less physical space used; the other, less digital space used. and then there’s the conversation of ownership…
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