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28/10/23 07:54 AM IST

Jio demonstrates India’s first satellite-based giga fiber service

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  • Reliance Jio Infocomm (Jio), demonstrated India’s first satellite-based giga fiber service to provide high-speed broadband services in previously inaccessible geographies in the country.
Satellite based giga fiber service
  • Jio says it is partnering with Luxembourg-based satellite communications company SES to provide medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite internet.
  • The company claims that SES’s O3v and o3b mPOWER networks are the only MEO constellation capable of delivering fiber-like internet services from space.
  • The more common method of delivering high-speed satellite internet usually involves constellations of low-Earth orbit satellites.
  • LEO satellites orbit at a height of between 250 and 2,000 kilometres above the planet.
  • Both Starlink, the service provided by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and the solution by OneWeb, a company backed by India’s Bharti group, use LEO satellite technology for low-latency, high-speed internet.
  • Currently, there are over 5,000 Starlink satellites in LEO, with SpaceX currently planning to deploy another 7,000.
  • The total number could later be expanded to 42,000.
  • OneWeb, in comparison, only plans to have about 630 satellites in orbit.
  • Project Kuiper, which falls under Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, plans to have over 3,000 satellites in orbit.
  • Services like Starlink and OneWeb can usually be accessed with a small terminal that can be bought by both individuals and organisations.
  • Jio connected four remote locations with JioSpaceFiber—Gir in Gujarat, Korba in Chattisgarh, Nabarangpur in Odisha, and Jorhat in Assam.
  • While Jio promises low-latency internet, chances are that its JioSpaceFiber internet will have a much higher latency than Starlink or other LEO services.
  • This is because MEO satellites orbit at a much higher distance from the planet, and therefore, radio signals take much longer to travel the distance.
  • One advantage of an MEO solution over an LEO one is that the former, in theory, can cover a larger area of the globe with much fewer satellites.
Source- Indian Express

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