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Dave Taht and his work have influenced a lot of people and products used by even more people around the world, so for this testbed during its initial planning and proposal stage. In addition to his insightful feedback and advice, Dave even wanted to generously donate his Starlink user terminal from his boat to the testbed. Unfortunately, Dave passed away on the same day (April 1, 2025) when the testbed was notified to be funded by NSERC. In honor of Dave and also his many contributions to the networking researcher and practitioner communities, and with the consent of his family, we have renamed the testbed to “the Dave Taht Memorial Testbed of Coast-to-Coast-to-Coast Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Networks” (shortened as cccleo), officially from April 1, 2026.
Supported by the NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grant and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada for the computing and storage infrastructure.
Related research
University of Victoria: https://oac.uvic.ca/leonet
University of Manitoba: https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~hup2/ntn/
University of Waterloo: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~dbarrada/projects/leo-wf/
Memorial University of Newfoundland: https://liu-kaiyang.github.io/space-edge/
To get involved (i.e., How can you help us?)
https://tinyurl.com/starlinkuser
Contact
Dr. Jianping Pan, University of Victoria
Email: pan at uvic dot ca
Current nodes (2026/06/12)
Alberta: Calgary
British Columbia: Victoria
Manitoba: Thompson
New Brunswick: Fredericton
Newfoundland and Labrador: St. John’s
Nova Scotia: Halifax, Glace Bay
Ontario: Ottawa, Waterloo
Prince Edward Island: Bideford
Quebec: Quebec City, Concordia
Saskatchewan: Saskatoon
Northwest Territories: Inuvik, Ulukhaktok (External collaborator)
Nunavut: Iqaluit, Eureka (External collaborator)
Yukon: Whitehorse, Dawson City
You can also navigate through the interactive map of planned dish deployment at https://tinyurl.com/cccleomap, where the markers on the map are approximate to the city level, not showing the exact location of each dish.
In partnership with external collaborators worldwide, we also have active access to more than 30 Starlink dishes across six continents. We are also in the development of a distributed research platform open for LEO network researchers worldwide.
Online nodes
Overview dashboard
Check https://tinyurl.com/cccleomap for the complete nodes coverage, including nodes pending installation, planned locations, etc.
Screenshot taken on 2026/06/15
Research datasets
1. https://github.com/clarkzjw/LENS, https://lens-starlink.jinwei.me
We have accumulated nearly 20 TB of raw measurement data of LEO network latency measurement since 2023, and have been regularly publishing monthly snapshots to the research community. Our existing dataset snapshots uploaded on Zenodo.org have already been downloaded over 6,000 times by LEO network researchers worldwide.
With the sponsorship of Digital Research Alliance of Canada for the computing and storage infrastructure, we have revamped the dataset collection and storage pipeline. The new dataset now also includes relevant diagnostic metrics from the Starlink dish gRPC interface.