I’m just curious what the bottlenecks are and what has been done to improve those. Because I remember when it would take 10 seconds to send an imessage and now I can watch YouTube when my connection is solid. Just impressive and I’m curious about it.
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It’s literally one company, called Viasat, located in San Diego.
While there are tech improvements, but the satellite and ground station infrastructure didn’t exist in any good way until Viasat, well, built them. basically most of the aircraft WiFi used ground towers (not satellites) and the few internet satellites were old and didn’t have much bandwidth and bad latency and had to use a complex combination of back and forth between towers like the tower based versions creating a mayhem of patchwork to get it to work at all.
Viasat decided to enter the aircraft market and sent up some expensive, brand new sexy satellites that would have been too complex and expensive before, that basically solved all the problem allowing the planes to directly connect to the satellite and the satellite with a high speed connection to a ground station
Literally one company. In San Diego. That’s it. There weren’t really big tech improvements, there were improvements, but literally everything else was a crazy patchwork, until Viasat setup a dedicated system.
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