[110505] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Estimate of satellite vs. Land-based traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed Jan 7 04:51:58 2009
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
To: JF Mezei <jfmezei@vaxination.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4964451A.3070902@vaxination.ca>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 04:51:35 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 2009-01-07, at 01:00, JF Mezei wrote:
> Northern communities in Canada's arctic rely exclusively on satellite
> for voice/data.
Ditto most Pacific Island nations...
> 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.
... although most Pacific Islanders I have met who are not on cable
routes are somewhat tolerant about multi-week outages, perhaps because
the alternative to tolerance is not obvious.
Joe
