19 Sep
2006
19 Sep
'06
10:54 a.m.
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:23:17 -0400, Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info> wrote:
On 2006-09-19, at 03:59, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
Does any fiber run into Zimbabwe? Or is everything via satellite?
Having fibre to your neighbiour is the exception in Africa, not the rule.
Remember the (proposed? built?) circum-Africa oceanic cable, with drops to each (coastal) country? Avoid the politics and instability of depending on a neighbor. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb