[73476] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Tue Aug 24 15:20:14 2004
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:19:15 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200408241320.i7ODKT1m026629@host122.r-bonomi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Robert Bonomi wrote:
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>Getting significant bandwidth on a satellite link, for any extended
>period, takes a *lot* of advance negotiation and arrangements.
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Significant bandwidth is also quite relative term. One transponder can
carry about 45Mbps maximum and a satellite has only a few dozen of them.
It also gets quite expensive quite quickly. Carrying a gigabit across
satellite is not feasible with technology available.
Pete
