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Encyclopedia > Teledesic

Teledesic was a 1990s proposal to build a commercial broadband satellite constellation for Internet services. The proposal was extremely ambitious, and was gradually scaled back in complexity and number of satellites as market expectations for the sale of capacity decreased. The failure of Iridium was a significant factor.


Teledesic was notable for gaining early funding from Craig McCaw and Bill Gates, and for achieving allocation of Ka band frequency spectrum for non-geostationary services.


External links

  • http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/constellations/teledesic.html Lloyd's satellite constellations - Teledesic
  • Teledesic home page (http://www.teledesic.com/)

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Providing Global Broadband Internet Access Using Low-Earth-Orbit Satellites (3086 words)
Teledesic was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, a suburb of Seattle.
Teledesic will also be able to provide a smaller number of high-rate channels at 155 Mbps to 1.2 Gbps for gateway connections and users with special needs.
Teledesic has performed extensive and detailed simulation of the network and adaptive routing algorithm to verify that they meet Teledesic's network delay and delay variability requirements.
Whiptech - Teledesic: The Orbiting Internet (2828 words)
Teledesic was formed in June of 1990 with the objective of creating a means of providing affordable access to advanced network connections to all those parts of the world that will never get such advanced capabilities though existing technologies.
When Teledesic was first publicised in early 1994, most people seemed to have difficulty comprehending the services that the Teledesic Network would provide.
Of course, the value of systems like Teledesic or any technology ultimately is measured by their ability to enhance the quality and meaning of our lives.
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