On Feb 29, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner > <strei...@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. > > Apparently at least one long fiber pull has been contemplated. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2207259.stm > > (Note : the headline is incorrect - the Internet reached the South Pole in > 1994, > via satellite, of course : > http://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/90s/ftp1.html ) > > As far as I can tell, this was never done, and the South Pole gets its > Internet mostly via > TDRSS. > > http://www.usap.gov/technology/contentHandler.cfm?id=1971
hmm antartica. that's very interesting place to deploy internet services ;) > > Regards > Marshall
