[92401] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Sep 19 08:24:57 2006
In-Reply-To: <366100670609190059r14c4a5b0md49d74b2d37c215f@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: peter@peter-dambier.de, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:23:17 -0400
To: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 2006-09-19, at 03:59, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> Does any fiber run into Zimbabwe? Or is everything via satellite?
Having fibre to your neighbiour is the exception in Africa, not the
rule.
> There has to be a remaining uplink (albeit low-capacity) if
> nameservers within the country are still accessible.
There's more than one satellite operator with footprints that cover
Zimbabwe.
Joe
