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Re: 60ms cross continent
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 10:45:10 +0200
On 7/Jul/20 10:07, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
The most noteworthy thing I'm seeing in C band these days, is many customers formerly 100% reliant upon it shifting their traffic to newly built submarine fiber routes.
Before most of Africa had submarine fibre, a lot of our traffic was carried on C-Band. In the decade preceding the arrival of submarine fibre, we reduced costs by moving to Inclined Orbit satellites, which were mainly operated on Ku-Band. So outages due to rain were a normal and accepted part of doing business. ISP's that maintained C-Band satellites survived rain fade, but had much higher operating costs. Nowadays, satellite services are generally used in remote locations, and for specific applications. Submarine fibre is the norm. Mark.
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