Amazon’s Starlink competitor is launching with ‘world’s fastest satellite internet antenna’

On Monday, Amazon announced Leo Ultra, the archetypal antenna for its outer net service, which is launching successful a backstage preview up of a commercialized rollout sometime adjacent year. Leo Ultra is made for “business and authorities customers,” dissimilar the different two, smaller Leo antenna options. No pricing oregon availability details person been announced, but this gives america our archetypal bully look astatine the 20-by-30-inch plan and specs of the caller antenna. 

Amazon claims Leo Ultra is “the fastest lawsuit terminal successful production,” offering up to 1Gbps downloads and 400Mbps uploads simultaneously, on with backstage networking services and nonstop connections to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and different unreality networks. A smaller 11-inch Pro antenna volition enactment up to 400 Mbps down, portion the 7-inch-square Nano volition beryllium capable to grip up to 100Mbps.

For comparison, Starlink’s concern plans enactment up to 400Mbps downloads, little than fractional of the maximum Amazon is advertising, though SpaceX’s upcoming V3 Starlink satellite volition reportedly enactment up to 1Tbps. 

Additional bandwidth aside, the backstage networking services connected Amazon Leo could beryllium different large vantage implicit older, pre-Starlink outer net networks presently successful use. Researchers astatine UC San Diego and the University of Maryland precocious reported spotting superior information vulnerabilities with unencrypted GEO outer links, allowing them to entree VoIP calls, SMS messages, login credentials, firm emails, and different information being sent successful the clear.