[92402] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Sep 19 10:55:35 2006
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:54:40 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Cc: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>,
peter@peter-dambier.de, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <F48F3340-87C0-4452-81E0-FED86DFCC862@ca.afilias.info>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:23:17 -0400, Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
Remember the (proposed? built?) circum-Africa oceanic cable, with drops to
each (coastal) country? Avoid the politics and instability of depending
on a neighbor.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
