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The secret world of microwave networks

9 pointsby danielmorozoffover 8 years ago

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snowwindwavesover 8 years ago
the last paragraph of the article discusses building 80 floating towers to make a microwave link across the Atlantix with a latency of 16 ms instead of the current 25 ms for fiber.<p>There would be numerous challenges; towers moving due to swells and wind ruining antenna alignments and radio waves reflecting off the rough and random surface of the ocean would cause for a lot of continually changing distortion on the receiving end unless the towers were phenomenally tall which would exacerbate the first problem.