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From: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net> In-Reply-To: <CAJNg7VKUeah+KsqF-Zd9sgC9HGh=D=urun3LyNHmsO-x5=0=Og@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:21:19 -0800 To: Marshall Eubanks <marshall.eubanks@gmail.com> Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org> Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org On Feb 29, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner > <streiner@cluebyfour.org> wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote: >>=20 >>> 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. >>=20 >>=20 >> 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. >=20 > Apparently at least one long fiber pull has been contemplated. >=20 > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2207259.stm >=20 > (Note : the headline is incorrect - the Internet reached the South = Pole in 1994, > via satellite, of course : > http://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/90s/ftp1.html ) >=20 > As far as I can tell, this was never done, and the South Pole gets its > Internet mostly via > TDRSS. >=20 > http://www.usap.gov/technology/contentHandler.cfm?id=3D1971 hmm antartica. that's very interesting place to deploy internet services = ;) >=20 > Regards > Marshall
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