Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

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

/bill


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 () 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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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