[150648] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Wed Feb 29 10:09:46 2012
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:08:50 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <35A9ED71-EE80-444C-BAF4-1C403351FB56@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote:
> There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government research
> facilities on Antarctica and I'm surprised to see no fiber end points on
> that continent? This can't be true.
Constantly shifting ice shelves and glaciers make a terrestrial cable
landing very difficult to implement on Antarctica. Satellite connectivity
is likely the only feasible option. There are very few places in
Antarctica that are reliably ice-free enough of the time to make a viable
terrestrial landing station. Getting connectivity from the landing
station to other places on the continent is another matter altogether.
jms
