Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....

[Robert Bonomi <bonomi () mail r-bonomi com>]

> From owner-nanog () merit edu  Tue Aug 24 08:01:15 2004
> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:57:29 +0100 (WEST)
> From: Carlos Friacas <cfriacas () fccn pt>
> To: Bruce Campbell <bc-nanog () vicious dropbear id au>
> Cc: nanog list <nanog () merit edu>
> Subject: Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....
>
>
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Bruce Campbell wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Tony Li wrote:
> >
> > > Did they arrest the crew?  They have grounds on negligence
> > > charges...
> >
> > The crew of the ship for having dropped anchor presumably in defiance of
> > 'Undersea cable, Do not anchor here' signs, or the telco for having sited
> > a critical communications cable near/beneath a busy port ?
> >
> > --==--
> > Bruce.
> >
> > ( Of course, I don't know the specifics, but if you have a choice, running
> >   your very-special undersea cable beneath a port would seem to be a bad
> >   idea )
>
> ...an alternative ISP would have made big bucks during those blockout
> days using some satellite gear, no? ;-)

subject to the availability of:
   uplink stations
   adequate bandwidth _to_ the uplink stations
   available satellites in 'line-of-sight'
   available transponder time on useable satellites.
   cost of that time.
   available 'downlink' earth receiving station(s)
   adequate bandwith connectins _from_ downlink points.
   cost of the downlink service

Getting significant bandwidth on a satellite link, for any extended
period, takes a *lot* of advance negotiation and arrangements.