Three partner sign long term satellite bb contract

Sponge Bob

http://www.eutelsat.com/news/compress/en/2011/pdf/PR%200611%20%20SBI%20contract.pdf


If this 'vision' of connecting 400,000 homes to the roughly 400mbits of spot beam downlink capacity is actually realised then everybody will get 1k download each

At decent speeds and contention the Irish spot beam cannot support more than 10,000 users in total. Hope SBI diffentiate NBS from their own customers before the complaints about throttling go to Europe. Maybe we will get two spot beams.

SATELLITE BROADBAND IRELAND SIGNS €5M+ CONNECTIVITY CONTRACT WITH
EUTELSAT TO BRING HIGH SPEED INTERNET TO IRELAND VIA THE
KA-SAT SATELLITE
Paris, 21 January 2011
Satellite Broadband Ireland (SBI) has signed a commercial agreement with Eutelsat
Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) to sell broadband services via KA-SAT, the world’s
most powerful commercial satellite. The initial 3-year broadband utility contract, worth
more than €5m, will allow SBI to sell Eutelsat’s next-generation Tooway™ satellite
broadband service, with download speeds of up to 10 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 4
Mbps. SBI will start to deliver the service in Ireland and plans to expand across Europe.
The Tooway™ service will be provided via Eutelsat’s innovative KA-SAT satellite, which
was launched in December 2010 and is on track to enter into full commercial service in
May 2011. KA-SAT’s approach is based on next-generation two-way wireless Ka-band
spotbeam technology, which lowers the cost of providing high-bandwidth access to the
Internet.
KA-SAT forms the cornerstone of a new European communications infrastructure which
includes eight main satellite gateways across Europe, including one in Cork, connected to
the Internet by a fibre backbone ring. As Europe's first High-Throughput Satellite (HTS),
with total capacity of more than 70 Gbps, it is ushering in a new era of competitively-priced
satellite-delivered services for homes and businesses across Europe and the
Mediterranean Basin.
“To build an inclusive digital environment in Ireland, it is vital that broadband is accessible
to as many of the 367,000 rural homes as possible,” said Kevin Ryan, SBI Chief
Executive.

watty

We can't get two beams. No movable spots AFAIK, consequence of having 82 spots via only 4 dishes.

I'd say 5,000 customers at package speed they are offering at more than twice contention allowed by Comreg for FWALA (125:1 vs 48:1)

about 400Mbps capacity, peak for Download, maybe 200Mbps in rain.

if loads of customers, then 50:1 contention (Satellite has been over 500:1 in the past)
so pretend the 400Mbps is 20,000Mbps
10Mbps package. = 2,000 customers
Typically 10Mbps off peak and 5Mbps to 8Mbps peak time

if you want 5,000 customers on 10Mbps , then Contention is 400 x C = 5,000 x 10
C = 50,000/400 = 125:1

even at 500:1 contention (which is HORRIBLE at peak times, 10Mbps would be like 700kbps ) only 20,000 customers.

Hylas1 (Avanti was Three's original partner) has MUCH less capacity!