In the past, many people looked down on Starlink , thinking that it was just winning by quantity, without much technical content, and a high scrap rate, which was just a joke. But now, there are fewer and fewer doubts, and the role of Starlink is becoming more and more apparent. Especially after the concept of satellite Internet began to gradually become popular, Starlink became more and more grand.
Starlink is still expanding, which has also posed a challenge to us. We must speed up our pace and create domestic star links to protect the security of the Internet constellation market. The good news is that Starlink's development has encountered new dilemmas, but the bad news is that this dilemma is only temporary and the challenges in the future may be even more severe!
Starlink encountered a new "strike"
According to the report of Ookla, a global network test organization, the download rate of US Starlink users whose download rate could still remain at 90.55Mbps in the first quarter of this year. By the second quarter, the download rate had dropped by 31%, to only 62.53Mbps. In addition to the United States, Starlink's download rate in Europe has also dropped a lot.
Why does the Internet speed drop? The reason is also very simple, because the number of users has increased. As we all know, no matter what network, the traffic channels are limited. Once there are too many people used or too dense, the network will be stuck. This is also the main reason why so many 4G and 5G base stations need to be built.
At present, the latest user data of Space X Starlink exceeded 400,000 users in May. Now that half a year has passed, Starlink users should have seen a significant increase, but they will not grow too much.
In other words, the number of users within the million level has begun to lose track of the Internet speed of Starlink. In the future, Starlink will have a long way to go if it wants to popularize the world and increase users to tens of millions and billions of levels.
On the other hand, the Internet speed of Starlink also changes with the density of the crowd. The more dense the user population, the slower the Internet speed will be, the more dispersed the user population, and the faster the Internet speed will be. In addition, factors such as geographical location are also affecting the speed of Starlink network.
Many people are concerned about how Starlink's Internet speed will be in the country. At present, Starlink's network speed is much worse than the domestic broadband network speed. According to Ookla data, my country's fixed broadband downstream rate is as high as 178.93Mbps. Based on its strong infrastructure strength, it may take a long time for the Internet constellation led by Starlink to replace traditional networks.
The crisis has "come with it"
Although Starlink will face difficulties in expanding the market in a short time due to the problem of network speed drops. But this also forces Space X to speed up its layout and launch more starlink satellites.
This means that more orbital resources will be occupied, and at the same time, more markets will be occupied by Starlink. This will at least create two major crises for us. First, the orbital resource crisis, which is a common topic. As we all know, low-orbit orbit resources are limited, so Starlink family wants to occupy two-thirds of the resources.
Starlink must accelerate the acquisition of resources. If we move slowly, we can only pick up the bad track resources left by others. The worst case is that the resource tracks may not be enough for us!
The second crisis is the market. Satellite Internet is an extremely large incremental market, and Starlink seizes the initiative and takes the lead. If we can't keep up, it is very likely that if we have our own Internet constellation, overseas will be the world of Starlink. This means that we will once again lag behind in this field.
Profits are small and the pattern is big. Do we want to live in a world surrounded by star links?
brings us reflection
In the field of Internet constellations, we must admit that we have begun to lag behind. But what we need to reflect more is why many times, we always followers rather than trend-leading people? Perhaps it is time to enhance technological innovation, which may be more meaningful than catching up.
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