[110516] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Estimate of satellite vs. Land-based traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?=)
Thu Jan 8 06:32:53 2009
From: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?= <bjorn@mork.no>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:29:23 +0100
In-Reply-To: <8848346F-B2A8-490D-88C1-7B8DA25A7E81@multicasttech.com>
(Marshall Eubanks's message of "Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:29:58 -0500")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>,
Martin Hannigan <hannigan@verneglobal.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com> writes:
> When I was working with Svalbard, Internet connectivity was through a
> satellite link at about 2.5 degrees
> elevation looking through a notch in the mountains. I don't think it
> has changed
It has, as Steinar says.
For those interested in the necessary elevation at 78 degrees north, I
found a nice picture of the antennas here:
http://www.mydarc.de/la0by/isfjord.jpg
There aren't any mountains in front of the the antennas. However there
is a mountain between Isfjord Radio and Longyearbyen (the main
settlement), requiring a relay station on the radio link between these.
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