[116593] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sat-3 cut?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Sun Aug 9 22:10:38 2009
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:09:49 -0400
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4A7F2164.3080700@foobar.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 08/08/2009 18:09, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>> Not in a long time. My memory is that SAT-3 was supposed to be a nice
>> cooperative effort funded by the nations themselves, rather than an
>> outside investor. With cooperation, I'd have expected good peering.
>
> Indeed, it is a co-operative affair owned by several of the incumbent
> telcos along the route, and one suspects that they engage in all of the
> sort of benevolent, community-focussed behaviour that you'd expect from
> incumbents.
>
Oh, neither of us are talking about benevolence. If you and I have a
joint venture, then I'd expect we'd have no problem with interconnection.
> On a more serious note, and peering / interconnection arrangements
> aside, the cable fault indicates a critical lack of resilience on the
> west coast of africa.
>
True. Does NANOG have an outreach and construction program? If not, it's
probably not on-topic....
