[121481] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Katrina response, private and public
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Wed Jan 20 21:48:19 2010
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:47:45 -0800
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> Re your plan to potentially run a cable from SD to PaP. Interesting. =
Looks like 300nm to me. I think you're going to need op amp and power.
The idea was to do a festoon cable instead, landing at coastal towns =
along the way, and using Ethernet switches to break out local service as =
well as repeating signal.
> On the Columbus run, they're going to need a landing station.
Yep, I expect they hope that the situation will work in their favor, and =
that they'll be granted one, which would break Teleco's current landing =
monopoly.
> I'm going to speculate that this is part of BTC's problem; no landing =
station of the subsea route was disrupted by the quake
The landing station building collapsed. There's no evidence of any =
damage to the fiber, though that's possible as well.
> I'd be thinking microwave and towers. Faster. Cheaper.
They've already got that, but "faster" only in the sense that it's =
already done... They're limited to a few STM1s, which were quickly =
overwhelmed by the relief workers. This is a common problem in disaster =
relief, we saw it particularly when we were working in Indonesia and =
Thailand during the tsunami... An area that had quite modest Internet =
usage, and infrastructure which may not be great, but is sufficient to =
its present requirements, gets a flood of relief workers in who all want =
to use Skype simultaneously, and determine that the perfectly-functional =
and previously-sufficient Internet is "broken" and needs to be =
reengineered.
The existing chain of microwave relays is the Haitian ISPs' fix for the =
problem of Teleco having a monopoly fiber landing and setting =
astronomical prices on access to it.
I'm not interested in reengineering anything, but I am interested in =
making sure that if aid money goes to the incumbent to fix their fiber, =
at least the community gets something out of it in the form of the =
monopoly being broken. Otherwise the fiber being fixed does no one any =
good, because they still won't be able to use it, same as before the =
earthquake.
It's very easy to spend money and make things worse than they were =
before.
-Bill
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