Over the last 30 years there have been a number of projects to create a satellite constellation, low orbit, able to create a communication infrastructure in the sky. Back at the end of the 80ies the idea of a constellation of satellites turned into a concrete project with Iridium, a …
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Over the last 150 years communication infrastructures have become more and more pervasive to the point that most of the time people no longer take notice. One is now becoming aware of a communications infrastructure in those rare situations where … there is no communications infrastructure. The increased processing capabilities, …
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We are experiencing a shift from a communications infrastructure to a communications fabric: the former being characterized by a top down design with network equipment under full control of a few recognised (regulated) Operators that balance the use of resources mostly on economic returns; the latter being characterised by a …
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