Satellite Internet Vs Submarine Cable

The myth i m exploring isn t if spacex could carry marea s traffic it s if they could carry half of used internet bandwidth in 2020.

Satellite internet vs submarine cable.

The submarine fiber optic cable system links tonga to fiji and is also the main trans pacific link between. Unlike cable satellite internet is provided by a satellite provider. On july 29 1858 two steam powered battleships met in the middle of the atlantic ocean. So there are two advantages that the submarine cable has over the communications satellite.

There they connected two ends of a 4 000 kilometer 2 500 mile long 1 5 centimeter 0 6 inch wide cable. Although i didn t talk about the reliability and the security aspect with my friend who is from finance background submarine cables in fact almost all wire copper fiber coaxial connections are more reliable than wireless satellite is a wireless technology which uses rf spectrum in summary fiber provides unlimited bandwidth shannon s capacity limit. As you ll remember that s about a full petabit. An internet connection on land sends a signal to a satellite in orbit outside earth which then transmits the signal to a satellite dish which has been installed at your home.

And very low latency compare to satellite communication. Also data communication via a communications satellite is susceptible to weather conditions like rain or typhoons while submarine cables are not affected by the weather.