[Ndr] Transit access on the islands ...

[Chris Malayter]

I think any plan is going to have to involve some form of backhaul within the island based on the destruction.

Ideally we could get someplace fairly high with service and branch out from there, perhaps even some form of mesh.

Though, we could still send ap/router combos out and hope we could find places with functional internet that we could leverage to share.

-Chris

> On Sep 11, 2017, at 11:27 PM, Phillip Heller <pheller at me.com> wrote:
> 
> Thus far, it is only my intention to inquire with vendors about service availability, and timelines for service activation and hardware shipment to the South East US.  Until we learn more and have a logistics plan, it’s really just exploratory to know what solutions might be workable.
> 
> —phil
> 
>> On Sep 11, 2017, at 11:21 PM, Nicholas Harland <nharland at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 
>> AT&T had limited service available in Charlotte Amalie on St Thomas and people were posting to facebook from it, so it certainly wasn't satellite uplink. 
>> 
>> I personally would prefer not making a lot of contacts until the security situation on the islands is better, but that's just because I'm going there. 
>> 
>> Attached is a map of the cables in the area, not sure if the list serv accepts attachments but those on the To will get it. 
>> 
>> Nick Harland
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>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Martin Hannigan <hannigan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> AFAIK undersea is ok. Access networks. We could set up for both? 
>> 
>> Bevil, Jason, what are you hearing? Would querying Caribnog at this point be hekpful? 
>> 
>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 22:04 Phillip Heller <pheller at me.com> wrote:
>> I had previously read that Transit access to the islands is ok (i.e., sub cables, etc).  Is that know for sure?  The more recent reports of damage and conditions are not encouraging...
>> 
>> It seems like the majority of the islands are in the HughesNet and SES/O3B footprints.  I started an inquiry with HughesNet today, but apparently their sales people are brain damaged as they referred me to distributors in PR, and of the few I tried, I had fast busy, endless ringing, or even dead air.
>> 
>> I’ll try SES/O3B tomorrow.
>> 
>> Of course, if we come to learn transit is available and just needs some help, these Satellite options can take a back seat.
>> 
>> In the mean time, if anyone here has inside contacts at either HughesNet or SES/O3B, that would be helpful.  Last resort, of course, is more BGAN gear.
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