BB For Schools, WHY Do I suspect Large Scale Vsat Rollouts

spongebob

This is Why , Ahern announces 20 jobs in Mediasat in Cork. (A Tad More Here )

Mediasat have a huge Fanbase here on Boards ....... Check It Out

Where would Mediasat get the notion that the demand for their service is due to ramp all of a sudden ?

M

iwb

Based on our mediocre ambitions as a broadband nation, satellite for remote schools fits just fine. Hell, why not just do a deal for all 4,100 of them!
It will be great to see the advanced curriculum and services delivered over it too.

MDR

Oh dear,

I feel an IOFFL press release coming,

sometimes its almost like a stone passing ...

spongebob

At least one contender for the schools BB project ( to be announced during the summer) has plans to take a complete Digital Sat Transponder of about 4Gb on a commercial satellite . The story has it that this will be a 1 way transponder and that the schools will be upgraded from Analogue to ISDN for the Uplinks.

The contender will rebrand Eircom wholesale DSL for larger schools in urban areas .

This 4Gb transponder Alone will be used for circa 1000 small rural primary schools with 2 or 3 teachers. It may be that other transponders will be used for larger schools with different b/w needs or who contract in for a lower contention .

Lets see. 512k x 8 = 4GB

1000/8 = 125:1 Contention on the downlink . That will surely be a tiny cap once it is deployed . No matter , they are only country kiddies.

M

Boston

The funny thing is that for those small schools flat rate duel channel ISDN would probably suit their needs better then tiny cap, huge lag sat broadband.

spongebob

I know Boston , it would a good start.

The problem is that the Oireachtas committee on Communications stated that BB starts at 512k so the ISDN will be used for the uplink only and for diagnostic purposes when the local pigeons are rutting on the LNB outside . They could multilink 8 channels but that means €150 a month in Line Rental alone for the 4 ISDN lines ya'd need

The overall proposal from this company will be uncannily close to the Western Australia BB project in 2002. See this site here for Detail on The Project

M

Boston

Originally posted by Muck
IThey could multilink 8 channels but that means €150 a month in Line Rental alone for the 4 ISDN lines ya'd need

Arn't esat the only ones doing that, and even at that they are pretty reluctant.