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

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Tue Aug 24 15:21:36 2004 
Robert Bonomi wrote:

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



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.

Pete