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Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....
From: Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:19:15 +0300
Robert Bonomi wrote:
Significant bandwidth is also quite relative term. One transponder can carry about 45Mbps maximum and a satellite has only a few dozen of them. It also gets quite expensive quite quickly. Carrying a gigabit across satellite is not feasible with technology available.Getting significant bandwidth on a satellite link, for any extended period, takes a *lot* of advance negotiation and arrangements.
Pete
Current thread:
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage...., (continued)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... David Lesher (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Suresh Ramasubramanian (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... David Lesher (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Tony Li (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Bruce Campbell (Aug 24)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Carlos Friacas (Aug 24)
- RE: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Mark Borchers (Aug 24)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Suresh Ramasubramanian (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... David Lesher (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Suresh Ramasubramanian (Aug 23)
- Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage.... Petri Helenius (Aug 24)