[9749] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: connectivity outside the US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel McRobb)
Sat May 31 16:51:20 1997
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
cc: map@iphil.net, smd@clock.org, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Message from <avg@pluris.com> of Sat May 31, 1997 11:18 PDT
<199705311818.LAA03892@quest.pluris.com>
Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 16:46:00 -0400
From: Daniel McRobb <dwm@ans.net>
> smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran) wrote:
>
> > Examining this a bit more closely, since undersea capacity is
> > terribly expensive, when there is adequate capacity available
> > to a large aggregate of sites people want to get to, there will
> > be an obvious market for access to that capacity.
>
> Actually, i do not understand why undersea capacity is so
> expensive. Cable is more expensive, yes; but the paths
> are much straighter, and there's no need to purchase
> rights of ways (except for shore-side strips). There's
> no need to dig trenches -- you just drop the cable off the
> boat.
From what I've read, it's quite difficult to lay undersea cable. There
was a nice article in the Dec. 1996 issue of WIRED covering the FLAG
(Fiberoptic Link Around the Globe) project, written by (of all people)
Neal Stephenson. Online at:
http://wwww.wired.com/wired/4.12/features/ffglass.html
Daniel
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