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Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break
From: Rob Evans <internetplumber () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:24:35 +0000
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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