Terawave from Blue Origin is interesting for a few reasons. 1. they’re going after enterprise customers: high bandwidth, fewer users, point-to-point and symmetric links. this is a very different play than starlink and requires a different architecture. 2. it shows they’re bullish on optical space↔ground connectivity. optical offers far higher bandwidth than RF, but the atmosphere has always been the challenge. the workaround is site diversity and routing: traffic moves across inter-sat laser links to whatever ground station has good conditions, with RF as a fallback. in space, optical links perform extremely well, and future high-capacity constellations increasingly assume every satellite has optical terminals (like spacex's "plaser"). with a proliferated MEO/LEO constellation and enough gateways, availability and throughput scale. 3. optimistically, this means parts of the global fiber backbone start to move into orbit. you can’t tap, cut, or anchor-drag a satellite network. it’s easy to see why INDOPACOM in hawaii might like this! we're gonna have a lot more data, and growing % of that will move thru space. and once traffic is in space, orbital compute, CDN, etc. make more sense. interesting times in space!