[115010] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Tue Jun 2 18:37:20 2009
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:35:57 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
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Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Once upon a time, Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> said:
> I promise you that that is not the case for all applications.
> Geosynchronous satellites can be anywhere. For the applications you
> are considering (communications mostly), equatorial orbit is the most
> advantageous.
Geosynchronous are only over a particular longitude. They move up and
down in latitude, so it isn't over a given point except twice per day
(or only once at the extremes).
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
