More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....

Tue Aug 24 19:19:15 UTC 2004

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