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Satellite Access in Time of War

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fractional-T-1-just-not-cutting-it dept.

miladus writes "Interesting report in the Washington Post this morning about how the Pentagon is buying access to commercial satellites to meet its bandwidth needs. Most of the commercial access will be used for backup to the military satellites and for non-military tasks. And the Pentagon has to compete on the market with all the news organizations trying to cover the conflict in Iraq."

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  1. Re:Just how much bandwidth is up there? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Reuters has huge amounts of bandwith - they own Radianz (www.radianz.com) which is an enormous redundant network - however it is used mainly for financial data. But it is a huge network.