[110503] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Estimate of satellite vs. Land-based traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Wed Jan 7 02:03:30 2009
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:03:20 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: JF Mezei <jfmezei@vaxination.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4964451A.3070902@vaxination.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
JF Mezei wrote:
> Northern communities in Canada's arctic rely exclusively on satellite
> for voice/data.
>
> Not a lot of data flowing comparatively, but it is their only option so
> it is more of a "mission critical" thing than a backup.
Also high latitudes are problematic as far as your link budget to
geostationary satellites goes in the first place. Switching to an
alternative satellite in the event of a failure may be more challenging
as a result.
