Rather than longer times, what about short times? I did some work on fast fading and you can see rapid swings in fade over <5s. That is hard for automated systems to respond to, so you normally respond by increasing the link margin. If you can predict this you could reduce the margin needed. That could potentially be very valuable.

Spot on. We categorize that <5s window as tactical fade mitigation.

Our current 3-5m window is for topology/routing, but the sub-5s window is for Dynamic Link Margin (DLM). If we can predict fast-fading signatures—like tropospheric scintillation or edge-of-cloud diffraction, we can move from reactive to proactive ACM.