Reliance Jio demonstrated India’s first satellite internet service
Jio is partnering with Luxembourg-based satellite communications company SES to provide Medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite internet.
Usually, satellite internet involves constellations of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites as used in Starlink and OneWeb.
The advantage of using MEO over LEO:
can cover a larger area of the globe with much fewer satellites.
Disadvantages: higher latency ( (latency is the time that data takes to transfer across the network), and requirement of a larger satellite dish.
About Satellite Internet:
- It provides an online connection powered by satellites.
- Internet service providers launch multiple satellites into space that orbit around Earth.
- It works by using radio waves to communicate with satellites.
- Data is sent and retrieved through a communication network.
♦ The communication network includes a modem, satellite dish, and a centralized Network Operations Centre (NOC) for monitoring the entire system.
Advantages of Satellite Internet:
- connecting people from remote or rural areas,
- multi-device access, etc.
Disadvantages of Satellite Internet:
- higher latency and
- expensive compared to ground-based internet,
- Severe weather conditions can interrupt transmission, etc.