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Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break
From: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:21:19 -0800
On Feb 29, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner <streiner () cluebyfour org> wrote:On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote: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.Apparently at least one long fiber pull has been contemplated. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2207259.stm (Note : the headline is incorrect - the Internet reached the South Pole in 1994, via satellite, of course : http://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/90s/ftp1.html ) As far as I can tell, this was never done, and the South Pole gets its Internet mostly via TDRSS. http://www.usap.gov/technology/contentHandler.cfm?id=1971
hmm antartica. that's very interesting place to deploy internet services ;)
Regards Marshall
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- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break, (continued)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Graham Beneke (Feb 27)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Oliver Garraux (Feb 27)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break virendra rode (Feb 27)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Mike Andrews (Feb 28)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Greg Ihnen (Feb 28)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Joly MacFie (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Rodrick Brown (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Justin M. Streiner (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Marshall Eubanks (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Mehmet Akcin (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Bill Woodcock (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break bmanning (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Dmitry Burkov (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Mike Andrews (Feb 28)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Graham Beneke (Feb 27)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Rob Evans (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Jan Schaumann (Feb 29)
- Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break Mike Andrews (Feb 29)