[110506] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Estimate of satellite vs. Land-based traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Jan 7 08:09:07 2009
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: JF Mezei <jfmezei@vaxination.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4964451A.3070902@vaxination.ca>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:08:55 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
French Polynesia has no fiber links at all and relies exclusively on
satellite and
maybe radio for internet access.
It looks, though, like they may finally get fiber sometime in the next
decade :
http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/95233925
Marshall
On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:00 AM, 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.
>
