[150669] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dmitry Burkov)
Thu Mar 1 01:17:48 2012
From: Dmitry Burkov <dburk@burkov.aha.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20120301061235.GA15100@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 10:16:58 +0400
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 1, 2012, at 10:12 AM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
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> we had an instance of "B" root there for a season. connectivity was a =
problem and
> we pulled the node in 2001.
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> /bill
You should install it on sattelite
dima
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> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:45:16PM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner
>>>> <streiner@cluebyfour.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote:
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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.
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>> There were INOC-DBA phones at several of the Antarctic stations, for =
quite a few years. We could see connectivity to them go up and down as =
the satellites rose above the horizon and set again.
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>> -Bill
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