[150650] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Evans)
Wed Feb 29 11:25:30 2012
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1202290938350.22197@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:24:35 +0000
From: Rob Evans <internetplumber@gmail.com>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Constantly shifting ice shelves and glaciers make a terrestrial cable
> landing very difficult to implement on Antarctica. =A0Satellite connectiv=
ity
> is likely the only feasible option. =A0There are very few places in
> Antarctica that are reliably ice-free enough of the time to make a viable
> terrestrial landing station. =A0Getting connectivity from the landing sta=
tion
> to other places on the continent is another matter altogether.
The British Antarctic Survey certainly use (used) satellite:
<http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/bas_research/techniques/tech7.php>
They gave a good presentation about it a couple of years ago:
<http://webmedia.company.ja.net/content/documents/shared/networkshop300310/=
blake_theuseofnetworksinthepolarregions.pdf>
Cheers,
Rob
