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Further deep dive if you want to learn more can be found here by the amazing
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Thanks again to @alexrkonrad for the piece!
Forrest Heath
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Forrest Heath
@forrestheath3
Playing civilization in the real world with @somosinternetco & Panandina
Backed by: @usv @RibbitCapital @KaszekVentures @ycombinator @K50Ventures @packyM
- 25,000+ days of internet access sold to people and kids like my little buddy here.
- Replying to @pronounced_kyle and @KennethCasselIt helped that I was already a massive fanboy and had been watching since @ianbrooke came on and blew my mind with his magic engine.
- Replying to @anu_bonth @jasonjoyride and @pronounced_kyleIt's been a fun process building these. First version was literally me in the woodshop cutting out the base with a very different type of "router" 😉
- Replying to @Ksaktweets @packyM and @pronounced_kyleCost physics. Satellite is great at giving good capacity over large area but doesn't do well concentrating capacity in dense locations. Our mid-level plan is 2gbps for ~$25 per month. Starlink is an amazing system but different tool for different market.
- Replying to @NoVibeJustOrch @pronounced_kyle and @oabushagurMuch in the way you don't hammer in a screw, you won't LEO constellation in an apartment building. Different tools for different use cases. Current Telcos have a big hammer and have peculiar vision impairment that sees the world as a vast sea of nails.
GIF - Replying to @sbmcnamara and @pronounced_kyleWe're doing that too $12 per month for a gig
- Replying to @forrestheath3 @GrayOdesa and @pronounced_kyleWe're not super public in the marketing now since we're still figuring out how best to articulate it to an end user. Most people are fine with 1-10gbps for now but there is the odd lunatic with a 100G homelab that we're happy to serve.
- Replying to @JasonSomosinternet.co 100x cheaper to deploy ISP for the urban developing world (1gbps, Zappos level customer service) Seed (W21)
- Replying to @jasonjoyride and @pronounced_kyle
- Replying to @PTrubey and @pronounced_kyleBroad strokes pretty on point. Basically boils down to getting as much of the network as possible on switch ASICs and abstracting the higher order network functions x86 based servers out of the clutches of the vendors. And doing a lot of engineering to make redundancy elegant
- Replying to @jriosmol @nicoberman and @somosinternetcoHey Jaime! I'm the CEO of Somos. Would love to hear more about the problems you were having with stability so the engineering team and I can fix it. Send me a dm 👍
- Replying to @forrestheath3 @anu_bonth and 2 othersNew architecture is a bit more elegant
