we had an instance of "B" root there for a season. connectivity was a problem and we pulled the node in 2001. /bill On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:45:16PM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:
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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.
There were INOC-DBA phones at several of the Antarctic stations, for quite a few years. We could see connectivity to them go up and down as the satellites rose above the horizon and set again.
-Bill
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