[110492] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Estimate of satellite vs. Land-based traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Tue Jan 6 15:36:40 2009
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:36:23 +0000
From: Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org>
To: Kevin.Smith@dca.state.fl.us
In-Reply-To: <OF87551143.CE2367A0-ON85257536.00710605@dca.state.fl.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue Jan 06, 2009 at 03:34:31PM -0500, Kevin.Smith@dca.state.fl.us wrote:
> Participting in a severe solar event EXERCISE. Can anyone give me an
> educated guesstimate of the percentage of backbone traffic that is
> satellite dependent vs. that which is totally land-based?
Depends on the country. I suspect in the USA, it's close to 100% land-based.
In places in central Africa, it's probably close to 100% satellite based.
Simon
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