[115009] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Fiber cut - response in seconds?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Jun 2 18:32:36 2009
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 18:32:01 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20090602212042.GF581435@hiwaay.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Once upon a time, Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> said:
> > Which is why, if you have a satellite, you often position DIRECTLY
> > over the antenna you are sending to
>=20
> Unless your target is on the equator, you don't position a satellite
> directly over anything.
>=20
I promise you that that is not the case for all applications. Geosynchronou=
s satellites can be anywhere. For the applications you are considering (com=
munications mostly), equatorial orbit is the most advantageous.=20
There are books documenting other locations and reasons for other locations=
... and we are off topic.
Best,
Deepak Jain
AiNET
