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: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > >> 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. > > 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 > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPTwztAAoJEG+kcEsoi3+HpgwP/2wjrnyjCoBrLgQYC/rsjVYe > uE8X9ZcnkAkBYI5Q3Aa3ZeVYNbUaX6OChgnsXlt+1v962Lja+V78QuthVDRCJ1Dp > Z5T+XtiIQB4u11lhN55mx8cPXbAKubGCduyCzjBBi+QqE5ayqqCocBHAItxYOMd7 > RRS5ijNUKVMtGIWWWHAdMFAdGuy3zOIt/9oWkq9jJo30RJkEVR6pi7b/sGmM7rjX > XLVc1RPtCmtDkALohRyQOPrMJ2k7284fJ49t2P2Z/8yBbvJtGRmRBkTiUNis0wtx > Ndxed96TaNwwF3snE/zAxu6xCZnjR5trzC586b3ULS2sGSSo2W63AjOqzpMtb8HG > /hlK2GuaAe1vy9Qa+6XDwVJZqbkzPKzrNv7A3RjNvFkTapPGwk1FI7SBO46CUqHh > y2xED78JrIcoKTbC927eWrrArFGRe4ujx+w2D5enlZJT/vGonDScsE/ISAxITbCx > QHbtoAWIjVbraN1UZx+g9hvYOb3AT04zkTImQCj0Kj42COx729WvR7anrkwNNAJV > uqQyLK2wyS9ItyG3U54tECeGVeK0nn9Gyuhp9wdIKI4Qs+JHxXb2eHFqzbn9OZHB > O7PhbBTW3h+viNUkK2NnoiFbQP3E3ZzzNAKjTN9hWa15uGOKum5xUxSZFCD47BuD > J2CjI8dx5PhmLTbcZS4C > =M/np > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
