BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
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| reply to audiog
Re: Who needs those classic things
Those are comm links in the event of a catastrophic failure. Those are not used to route data or voice at the moment and won't be unless they are absolute last choice.
You have been watching to much tv. Data and voice over satellite is very expensive. And there is not data routed over a satellite link for any backbone needs at all. No one is stupid enough to do that.
Nasa does not launch the satellites I'd hate to tell you that. A separate company does. And they ship the satellites out to the equator to launch them from a boat or even from places in Europe and china. Nasa releases government only satellites.
As of this writing you can still view their fiber hops that are lit. Even level3 lets you view them.
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