From owner-nanog@merit.edu Tue Aug 24 08:01:15 2004 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:57:29 +0100 (WEST) From: Carlos Friacas <cfriacas@fccn.pt> To: Bruce Campbell <bc-nanog@vicious.dropbear.id.au> Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu> Subject: Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Bruce Campbell wrote:

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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Tony Li wrote:

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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.