*Caution* Assumptions and flawed reasoning are used in this post.
I ran out of unlimited 150GB data so I'm bored.
Currently Viasat has about 576,000 subscribers and a throughput of 440gbps.
The companies total revenue is $439.7 million per year.
33% is from subscribers.
17% is from commercial networks
50% is from government
For the sake of argument, lets pretend that 100% of their bandwidth capacity is solely for consumers and they are able to connect to BOTH Viasat 1 & 2 .
440gbps = 440,000mpbs, 440,000mbps / 576,000 subscribers = .7369mbps per subscriber (all simultaneously downloading).
What is the max number of people (simultaneously downloading at 25mbps) the satellites can handle while still delivering me my advertised 25mbps?
440,000mbps / 25mbps per subscriber = 17,600 subscribers. That's 3% of all subscribers
Lets figure out how much Viasat makes every gigabyte.
440gbps * 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days = 1140480000 gigabits can be transferred in a (30 day) month if the satellites are always transmitting at max capacity.
1140480000 gigabits / 8 bits per byte = 142,560,000 gigabyte or 142.56 petabytes!
$439.7 Million / 12 months per year = $36.64 Million a month
$36,640,000 / 142,560,000 gigabyte= $0.257 per gigabyte.
How much do I pay per GB? $100 / 150GB = $0.667 per gigabyte (not bad at all!).
If all 576,000 customers had 150GB unlimited plans and downloaded their max data they would only use 86,400,000 gigabytes of the satellites' total monthly capacity.
Sources:
http://investors.viasat.com/news-releases/news-release-details/viasat-announces-fourth-quarter-and-f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViaSat-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViaSat-2
I ran out of unlimited 150GB data so I'm bored.
Currently Viasat has about 576,000 subscribers and a throughput of 440gbps.
The companies total revenue is $439.7 million per year.
33% is from subscribers.
17% is from commercial networks
50% is from government
For the sake of argument, lets pretend that 100% of their bandwidth capacity is solely for consumers and they are able to connect to BOTH Viasat 1 & 2 .
440gbps = 440,000mpbs, 440,000mbps / 576,000 subscribers = .7369mbps per subscriber (all simultaneously downloading).
What is the max number of people (simultaneously downloading at 25mbps) the satellites can handle while still delivering me my advertised 25mbps?
440,000mbps / 25mbps per subscriber = 17,600 subscribers. That's 3% of all subscribers
Lets figure out how much Viasat makes every gigabyte.
440gbps * 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days = 1140480000 gigabits can be transferred in a (30 day) month if the satellites are always transmitting at max capacity.
1140480000 gigabits / 8 bits per byte = 142,560,000 gigabyte or 142.56 petabytes!
$439.7 Million / 12 months per year = $36.64 Million a month
$36,640,000 / 142,560,000 gigabyte= $0.257 per gigabyte.
How much do I pay per GB? $100 / 150GB = $0.667 per gigabyte (not bad at all!).
If all 576,000 customers had 150GB unlimited plans and downloaded their max data they would only use 86,400,000 gigabytes of the satellites' total monthly capacity.
Sources:
http://investors.viasat.com/news-releases/news-release-details/viasat-announces-fourth-quarter-and-f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViaSat-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViaSat-2
Posted 9 months ago
VeteranSatUser, Champion
Stephen Rice, Champion
In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that... and perhaps more, only one of each of us. Don't destroy the one named Viasat.
VeteranSatUser, Champion
Stephen. I am a little disappointed you didn't share the Al Bundy tale here.
It was MY understanding that there would be NO math on this forum.
Andy
Andy
Clearly there isn't since nothing adds up in this community in general.
I'm bored too... and haven't run out.
The math is reasonably solid (only in this community are addition, multiplication and division considered too much to handle). The assumptions (and pretending) are where you're going wrong.
Residential subscribers can't connect to both Viasat-1 and Viasat-2 (unless they have two separate accounts). It's likely that commercial and government accounts have dedicated bandwidth. Only 33% of the revenue is derived from residential. Much of the revenue comes from sources other than actual satellite service - equipment, managed wifi, etc. It's been hinted/suggested only 50% of Viasat-2 capacity is being reserved for residential as opposed to 95% on Viasat-1.
.7369mbps isn't too far off from the "speeds" people are complaining about during peak usage periods and at least you've grasped the concept of capacity vs. speed ;)
Next up... Applied Queuing Theory in Network Management. Prequisite courses: Applied Linear Alegebra, Probability Theory, Intro to Operations Research.
The math is reasonably solid (only in this community are addition, multiplication and division considered too much to handle). The assumptions (and pretending) are where you're going wrong.
Residential subscribers can't connect to both Viasat-1 and Viasat-2 (unless they have two separate accounts). It's likely that commercial and government accounts have dedicated bandwidth. Only 33% of the revenue is derived from residential. Much of the revenue comes from sources other than actual satellite service - equipment, managed wifi, etc. It's been hinted/suggested only 50% of Viasat-2 capacity is being reserved for residential as opposed to 95% on Viasat-1.
.7369mbps isn't too far off from the "speeds" people are complaining about during peak usage periods and at least you've grasped the concept of capacity vs. speed ;)
Next up... Applied Queuing Theory in Network Management. Prequisite courses: Applied Linear Alegebra, Probability Theory, Intro to Operations Research.
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Let's ask the expert...
He's over at DSL Reports...
Stephen Rice, Champion
Beakman is getting old. Its good to see he doesn't have any gray hair though.
