[LINK] web: The NBN satellite Malcolm Turnbull never wanted prepares for liftoff

[David Lochrin]

On 2015-09-07 11:39 Paul Brooks wrote:

> On 7/09/2015 9:54 AM, JanW wrote:
>> [...]
>> Demand will change that. 
> Only if the number of premises in the tower footprint changes dramatically - someone combines four properties into a few hundred chalets, each needing their own dedicated connection, for example.
> 
> When the number of endpoints within the tower footprint is pretty well known before the tower is built, demand doesn't change that much.

Locally, it seems that the wireless towers are being inter-connected by microwave links in a somewhat redundant network which I assume would have more than one fibre trunk.  But there's probably scope for congestion on the uWave connections.

This part of the world also has a high rainfall (or did have before greenhouse warming) and fogs, and I wonder whether the weather might also be a factor.  But low-level wireless technology is not my area.

David L.