Estimate of satellite vs. Land-based traffic

Wed Jan 7 19:38:30 UTC 2009

It depends on where in some cases. Take Greenland for example. Prior to Tele Greenland possibly completing the Greenland Connect cable[1] real soon now (Halifax to Nuuk, Nuuk to Iceland, branched to Qaqortoq, with xcon to UK and Denmark) I seem to recall that a large amount of their capacity was via satellite from Godthab(Nuuk) to Denmark.

In this case, you're likely talking 100%. Almost all of your remote cases are going to be in a similiar situation ie. Svarlsbad, most stuff above t~N60^ parallel (or so) etc.

[1] Tele Greenland IT News Item (see last paragraph, Brian Buus Pedersen is Tele's CEO)

Best,

Martin Hannigan

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From: Kevin.Smith at dca.state.fl.us [Kevin.Smith at dca.state.fl.us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 15:34
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Estimate of satellite vs. Land-based traffic

All,

Participting in a severe solar event EXERCISE.  Can anyone give me an
educated guesstimate of the percentage of backbone traffic that is
satellite dependent vs. that which is totally land-based?

Thanks

Kevin Smith
Information Systems & Services
Department of Community Affairs
kevin.smith at dca.state.fl.us  [preferred]
850.922.9921  [voice]
850.487.3376  [fax]

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