BBC reports Kenya fiber break

Thu Mar 1 06:16:58 UTC 2012

On Mar 1, 2012, at 10:12 AM, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

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> we had an instance of "B" root there for a season.  connectivity was a problem and
> we pulled the node in 2001.
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> /bill

You should install it on sattelite

dima

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> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:45:16PM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner
>>>> <streiner at cluebyfour.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote:
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>>>>>> There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government research
>>>>>> facilities on Antarctica and I'm surprised to see no fiber end points on
>>>>>> that continent? This can't be true.
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>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
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>> There were INOC-DBA phones at several of the Antarctic stations, for quite a few years.  We could see connectivity to them go up and down as the satellites rose above the horizon and set again.
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>>                                -Bill
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