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Has Whitedawn/Whiteblue returned to our midst in the cunningly disguised moniker witedawn.....??? Things have been going swimmingly in the stock market since you've been gone mate - really strong returns across the board, er...apart from AVN of course which has continued to slide....:-((
Thanks for the responses, I will b keeping an eye on this one for the future in hopes it turns round to the up side of life. Gla
GCCR Do you have any evidence of the customer feedback because the only one I can find is for Avonline's satellite broadband service on Trustpilot and they get a very poor rating of only 2.6 out of 10 points. Link should be below - https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.avonlinebroadband.co.uk Any other evidence apart from what's in Avanti's own PR?
Valion, I'm no expert but my guess is that the size of these contacts are not large enough to dent the amount AVN owes or it's spending.
Yes. You are missing something. Its a pile of smelly stuff. It has too much debt and even if it wins another 10 contracts a month for the rest of this year and next it wont be able to cover its debts . Simple really. It owes too much money and the mgt have run this once promising company into the ground.
TBH GCC, I think we'd all feel safer if you handed your rifle over to a monkey......;-)
What do you expect tyche100. It's comical indeed ! As a relative newcomer to AIM I tried explaining this stuff a couple of years ago, but it's like giving a rifle to a monkey and expecting the target to be hit ! Besides, most, like the expert Crobe had ulterior motives (Shorting) and so did nothing but distort the facts to suit their evil motives. On network performance lets just say....It works. This fact is borne out by customer feedback and Repeat order Volumes. `
Seems folks here are mixing single terminal performance with total system performance... Jupiter for example can outroute multiplied uplinks f 1Gbps+ a Jupiter modem can receive any of the outroutes but it's CPU can only utilise a 100Mbps at max and that's also constrained to the traffic type (UDP) if it's TCP traffic the modem can process around 50Mbps that said the outroutes are not running any slower for the modemit's still 1Gbps and ten modems could sit with uncontended bandwidth buts that's highly unleastic to offer service like that... Think of it like a salami sausage and each modem getting a slice in time. Secondly all ISPs factor an uncontended bit rate of rougly 100Kbps per user (because our traffic needs are bursty and we're not always online) therefore a crude number of contention using the same philosophy you can have 10,000 users. The system works better the more users you have in the mix and the more bandwidth you prepend on dedicated transponders.. if say each user has with a CIR of 100Kbps, you could set a MIR of 500kbps and a BIR of say 10Mbps download from the outroute using token bucket QOS policy I assure you nobody would complain...
Due to current news of 4.5mll contract signed and another contract win was expecting the share price to bounce. To me that is great promising news for the future and growth of this company, surely she sp should of bounced or am I missing something?
Given that this whole conversation started around whether satellite can reliably handle streaming for the domestic market, let me paste something that may help you, Tyche. This from AVN's own RNS-R re the Eurona deal from Jan 25th this year:- "The service delivers packages with speeds of 30Mbps using the new Jupiter 2 platform, which can support throughputs of up to 100Mbps." So, that transponder/hub combo... how many concurrent users, each running at a continuous 5Mbps, do you reckon it could support? Satellite is really not good at all for streaming in the wider market - it's much better for downloading video for later viewing. On top of the overall throughput limitations, satellite is much MUCH better at downloading single large files than multiple fragmented - and time-critical - files.
Okay Tyche, let's hear it. How many concurrent users at 5Mbps (iPlayer's minimum requirement) can a single KA transponder handle today? What's your number? I'll be interested in your reply. While you're about it, care to take a stab at what the minimum average monthly QoS that the network operators contractually guarantee for each GB-based package? Take a mid-range package, say one with a 50GB monthly data allowance as your yardstick. Again I'll be curious to see your answer.
Great post XXSHAKENBAKEXX. I'm still laughing at our industy expert who thinks one transponder can only allow 20 streams that was really funny.
ShakenBake... An informed post (finally). My 100Mbps may be a tad pessimistic, but looking at current real world performance of existing KA assets over Europe, I reckon it's closer to the truth than your 1Gbps. But for the sake of argument let's split the difference and say I'm out by a factor of 5... it's still a quart out of a pint pot situation, no? AVN has indeed fairly recently provisioned some of the latest Hughes Jupiter-2 platforms (as announced in Jan 17 with the Eurona deal) - but the maximum real-world throughput of a Jupiter-2 hub is.... 100Mbps, as announced in the Eurona RNS-R. Their Gilat SkyEdge II-c hubs have a similar real-world performance. Yes of course satellites have multiple transponder payloads, but I'm focussing in on single transponders to make the point. How heavily can existing assets be sweated? What annual revenue can be expected per transponder today, given market demand and competitive technologies? There's certainly a place in the market for satellite broadband, but with current tech, it's becoming ever more marginalised and it's important to be realistic about what it can actually deliver today. What's needed is a technology step change - and there's one coming in 2020, if Viasat/Eutelsat are to be believed. If I remember, tomorrow I'll post a link to their OFCOM submissions re the potential USO (10Mbps minimum universal service obligation) that is being much talked about in Whitehall. Interesting reading...
Very conservative link budget you have done there. Lots of transponders onboard a satellite. Hughes equipment is capable of very high speed out routes far greater than what you have listed for instance 1Gbps+ on 200MHz single ka transponders as well as efficient return channels - Avanti has the Hughes equipment to do this. I think your analaysis is too pessimistic. Also consider that whilst you can calculate a byte rate, you also need to consider acceptable usage policy's, fair access policy's and time of day offsets (business users/ consumer users) will operate at different times. The model works great if you know how to apply it - again look at Hughes in the US with 7million broadband customers on their satellites and systems.... for all Avantis faults, technology is not one of them, they really do need to increase their coverage and get those next two birds up pronto!
The issues I have are with misinformation. Looking at any existing KA domestic service in the UK, it is indeed theoretically possible to stream, which is why this ability can be marketed. However, in practice, it's rarely possible... and here's why. Start with the maximum throughput rate of a KA transponder today. Any guesses? 100Mbps max - and that's being generous, allowing for superbly optimised link budgets. But let's go with that 100Mbps - it makes the maths easy and presumes some very smart traffic shaping. Now, what speed is needed for SD streaming? iPlayer plumps for 5Mbps... so, regardless of package chosen (whether defined by speed or data amount, a single KA transponder can only cater for 20 concurrent streaming users... and nobody else hanging off that transponder using any bandwidth at all. It's simple maths. And please feel free to check that stated transponder throughput figure. Now of course, what are the chances of there being 20 concurrent streaming users? Unfortunately increasingly more likely, what with the rise of IP-based TV on demand. This is no criticism of AVN - it's equally true of Eutelsat and SES. The satellite broadband industry basically attempts to die a gallon out of a pint pot - and because of this and geometrically rising appetites for data every year, it's becoming harder and harder to do this while still delivering anywhere near an acceptable level of service. (And yes, I too was gobsmacked when the "behind the scenes" numbers were explained to me - though perhaps it's less surprising if one considers that a technology primarily designed for broadcast is being manipulated to deliver effectively individual P2P unique communications.) PS the above 100Mbps maximum can really easily be turned into a maximum possible GB per month delivery, presuming 100% 24/7 bandwidth utilisation... which then gives a good estimate on the maximum number of users that can be hung off a single transponder... and then factor in a deliberately chosen overprovisioning ratio.
Mm's playing all the games to try get pi's to sell out cheap! Nice to see a little jump at the end of play today....bodes well for next week. Gla
Thank you for taking the time to reply, and I find all of them polite, so thanks again. I was refering to Avonlines website. And I was incorrect in describing the problems my pal was warned of as audio / video sync. He did describe it as latency which I remembered when I saw your posts. I interpreted that as sync issues. Thanks again and let's all have a good weekend. R
Clearly you have some issues, I was replying politely to robbiemister regarding streaming which you can do over any platform on the Avanti network, steaming as in watching youtube videos or Iplayer, anyone can check any avanti company who sells avanti services, they all offer streaming, and you can do it in 4K if you have selected the correct package. And yes I am aware of SNG as Avanti have contracts with SNG providers. Have a nice weekend.
Good grief. First off, I imagine Robbie went and visited Avonline's website rather than trekking off to Bristol. Secondly, there is no way any responsible reseller would sell a domestic or small business oriented satellite broadband service for the purposes of streaming SD video, let alone HD or UHD on any of today's KA-based services. Live streaming can be done (and is), e.g. by TV news channels with live satellite uplinks back to studio - but they're utilising dedicated and uncontended bandwidth that they've purchased/rented and serious kit, both things which are far beyond the financial reach of the wider market.
Robbiemeister, Not sure what you expected to see at Avonline HQ except a small 76cm antenna which is typical end user kit, as the Hubs will be installed at Avanti earth station. Also you can stream no problem over KA with voice in sync with picture, On the old KU systems with their large beams and low throughput rates this was a problem, but now with smaller more concentrated KA beams and improved technology being used all over the world by the big players this is not a problem. For example EE will use a combination of Avanti bandwidth and 4g to stream live body cam footage for police officers back to their HQ which cannot be done at present over their airwave system for the new ESN project. On the more professional units latency is lower at 500ms-600ms but they come at a cost. Best of luck.
RM no a failure to sync audio and video is not the issue with satellite & streaming. There are however definitely issues with streaming over satellite broadband that are related to latency (typically and unavoidably around 600-700ms at best with geostationary satellite) and consequential potentially frequent buffering. Satellite's better suited to download catch-up TV rather than streaming (big files that can be downloaded at leisure for later viewing, rather than much smaller and time-critical data packets). I wouldn't look to recommend streaming unless one had access to a 4G or wireless broadband service, or of course an FTTC/FTTP-based one.
tyche, The reason for my post was that I have been to Avonlines site in the past researching satellite broadband for a pall who has bad broadband with no hope of fibre. There appeared to be nothing there that wasn't there when I looked a year ago and suspected that it was just old news being re-spun. BTW my pal rejected satellite as he is interested in streaming and had been told the pictures and sound don't sync correctly using that method. Don't know if that is true or not.
Some posts are getting a bit too confrontational and personal. We all have pretty strong feelings, after all we have money riding on the success or otherwise of Avanti Communications, but good manners cost nowt. I do not have the technical or industry knowledge that some posters have. What I do have however, is the experience of watching my investment at £3.66 per share dwindle away to it's current sub 10p. All the way down, the company has been predicting great things ahead, but the numbers have given that the lie. Many posters on here have continually been proclaiming an imminent liftoff (see what I did there) to financial paradise and a land of milk and honey. If you look at promises and predictions versus cold hard reality it is difficult for me to believe that there will be a turnaround. Of course, all this said, it depends very much on your buy in point, if you bought in at 8p then you will be reasonably happy at the moment, and rightly so. You pays your money and you takes your chance. GLA
I've no idea who Crobe is. As to industry knowledge, I'm no avid Google researcher or cut n paste apologist, but have far more respect for the opinions of those actually involved in the real world business of satellite connectivity. Which is something that I also happen to be involved in on a day to day basis, interacting with network operators, regional and central government and major channels to market - all of which are IMO way more reliable information sources than any copy and pastable/linkable PR puff to be found on the web. Moreover, despite several concerted efforts to the contrary, I have never found AVN's offered services or business case in any way compelling, when stacked up against its direct competition. Of course, that's just in respect of the commercial requirements that are specific to the business I'm in, but still...