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Fastest internet ever on Earth is coming
Japan's revolutionary satellite could launch the world's fastest Internet and bring high-speed connections to the most remote of users
This Saturday, Japan launched a satellite, Kizuna. If all goes well, starting in July Kizuna will provide commercial users with the fastest Internet on Earth. Less speedy is the faster-than-fiber-optic connection speeds that the average user can access with just an 18-inch-wide dish. Those speeds will be available to offices and homes in remote areas, places that don’t have the necessary telecommunications infrastructure. The satellite could also keep Internet access afloat if a natural disaster—such as an earthquake—or human error knocks out the normal connection lines.

The $342 million satellite, which is expected to function for five years, is part of Japan's larger goal to be the world's most advanced information technology nation.

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20 responses // Fastest internet ever on Earth is coming

  • So the only question i have, is what is faster, this or the GRID?
    boyte11
  • So why can't the U.S. do this?
    ivxx
  • boyte11, the Grid, of course.
    Vierotchka
  • Hola there people.... I think some of you are missing the point, all satellite communications are based on transmissions traveling at the speed of light and so forth. I am not going to go into the details but actually a constellation or group of this kind satellites can act as a space based grid. Actually all The Global Positioning System Sats are in theory a grid. Most of The Grid or Cloud concepts that are available are land based and they are simply no more than spare computing resources within a group.

    Coming back to Kizuna... what it brings is redundancy on high speed connectivity to the Internet, most likely a backbone. I am sure there other satellites like this for private, commercial and military usage.

    The high speed might comes from a nice high frequency bandwidth, sadly more spectrum pollution.

    I really look for the day satellite transmissions are coming down on a beam of light instead.
    hyperbrand
  • I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that part of the internet also goes via satellite as do inter-continental phone connections.
    Vierotchka
  • For the right price anyone could have the fastest Internet on Earth. If you think about it. That's why my internet is soooo sloooowww.... *impoverished tear*
    EmperorThan
  • no thanks for a satellite connection. its the same thing with satellite tv. what do you do when the weather sucks and you get no connection...i twiddle my thumbs
    diode
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    localsly
  • What happens after 5 years
    sserts
  • After 5 years they Japanese would move to a newer faster technology. While we experiment with the can and string idea.
    ipodrulz
  • Wow. Not only would I be able to watch twice the pornography, but I could also download twice as many movies (which are also pornography).
    AceHardchester
  • this internet is so fast that you can download episodes of Lost before the episodes are even written.
    joshuaheller
  • Land lines are safer we can at least fix it if it breaks in a timely fashion.
    WoodyShrimp
  • Maybe I dont know what I'm talking about but shouldn't internet connections be speeding up everyday?
    StuntBunny
  • What are they doing differently than DirecWay, HughesNet or Wild Blue? All are 2-way satellite internet providers that have the worst latency possible (about 2.5 seconds for a round trip request).

    Thats because the satellite is in geo-synch (at the equator, the only place geo-sync can exist) and must be placed far enough away from the earth so that people can see it from 20 deg above the horizon.

    Low-orbiting satellites like GPS and satellite phone service require an array of satellites that move relative to the surface.

    Basically, I'm very curious how they get around this problem and I cant find much info out there.
    nolanpro
  • Ummmm, 'on Earth' like there are faster ones on other planets?
    patsarts
  • This is the Future of the Internet and microelectronic communications in general. Pretty soon, the entire world will be wired to the Internet.... We live in the future.
    RxValdez
  • Of course we will live in the future. The future is the future. But how fast is fast?
    ohmankidvicious
  • http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/
    To all of you talking about the Grid:

    The Grid isn't a faster Internet, it is meant to run on the existing Internet just like the World Wide Web. Some Grid testbeds are built on high speed networks, and maybe we're going to have to upgrade the Internet before the Grid is implemented.

    Here is a website if you want to learn more about the Grid:
    hack26
  • Money well spent.Japan is really putting their money where the laptop is.Profits are sure to come by this move.
    powerup

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