Thread regarding ViaSat Inc. layoffs

Yesterday’s Problems

Armies tend to fight the last war, the last battle, and the last skirmish. The all-hands was exclusively focused on all the cool ways we solve......yesterday's problem. We're already in a world where gobs of capacity are available and further expanding. StarLink will have about 200-300 Tbps in orbit by end of 2024. If we just look at CONUS, about 2-4% of that capacity is available for use which is 4-12 Tbps which overwhelms our 1 Tbps capacity for flight 2 in 2025.

We're entering a world where capacity is a plentiful commodity. We're solving yesterday's problem and fighting yesterday's battle bc we missed the LEO disruption and remain stuck with constrained GEO capacity. At StarLink's and Kuiper's capacity, all the optimization brilliance discussed today isn't as important. They are flooding the market with capacity. Our past battle strategy won't be effective in the new world.

I need leaders to talk to us about fighting the next battles to keep hope alive.

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Post ID: @OP+1tVOiLm1

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Yep, StarLink putting up gobs of capacity while we rub our di-ks with obsolete optimization problems. Turns out capacity is indeed plentiful if you look at the problem differently, will only get worse when Kuiper hits the market. You can feversihly work capacity optimizations if you've hamstrung yourself with a sh---y strategy or you can....just increase capacity. ¯_(:|)_/¯

https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-clears-spacex-to-upgrade-first-gen-starlink-satellites

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Post ID: @bntl+1tVOiLm1

Man even the Layoff website blasts me with starlink ads.... I cant remember the last time I saw a Viasat ad.

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Post ID: @4rdy+1tVOiLm1

Good post. Indeed on the yesterday's problem - this is what happens when the techincal vision and strategy setting is vested in only one person...and that person is too dismissive for too long of the existential threats. It's far easier to throw technical stones at Starlink coverage, capacity, SLA, etc, etc. than actually do something creative about it. The world has moved on from building new, massive, record-breaking-capacity, singleton GEO birds...and he isn't very good at it anyway.

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Post ID: @xqy+1tVOiLm1
Viasat needs to make service self deployable. Somthing people can bring with them for home and travel.

It's called Starlink Mini

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Post ID: @gux+1tVOiLm1

Viasat needs to make service self deployable. Somthing people can bring with them for home and travel. Also need to partner with a streaming service to make a package deal. People want something they can bring with them, stream and they want a good deal. I dont think viasat can compete with the speeds, for now, but at least work in areas that they can.

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