BBC reports Kenya fiber break
Rob Evans
internetplumber at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 16:24:35 UTC 2012
> Constantly shifting ice shelves and glaciers make a terrestrial cable
> landing very difficult to implement on Antarctica. Satellite connectivity
> is likely the only feasible option. There are very few places in
> Antarctica that are reliably ice-free enough of the time to make a viable
> terrestrial landing station. Getting connectivity from the landing station
> to other places on the continent is another matter altogether.
The British Antarctic Survey certainly use (used) satellite:
<http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/bas_research/techniques/tech7.php>
They gave a good presentation about it a couple of years ago:
<http://webmedia.company.ja.net/content/documents/shared/networkshop300310/blake_theuseofnetworksinthepolarregions.pdf>
Cheers,
Rob
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