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> From [email protected] Tue Aug 24 08:01:15 2004 > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:57:29 +0100 (WEST) > From: Carlos Friacas <[email protected]> > To: Bruce Campbell <[email protected]> > Cc: nanog list <[email protected]> > 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.
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