[Ndr] Transit access on the islands ...

[Nicholas Harland]

and sorry all for my horrible typos and grammatical editing errors. running
on ~2-4 hours of sleep for many days now and carrying out multiple
conversations while trying to prepare.

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 8:59 PM, Nicholas Harland <nharland at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I can model sightlines once I get back based on SRTM elevation data. For
> St John specifically everything is wireless backhaul to begin with.
>
> I will be up and running with DigitalGlobe FirstLook satellite imagery
> covering all of the Caribbean and Florida from DigitalGlobe sometime
> tomorrow. My contact there said that as of today they should have daily
> imagery. Most of the islands were obscured by clouds today so it's no good.
>
> If it's 30cm WorldView-3/4 then you we should be able to look at towers
> and see what is standing and what isn't
>
> technology is so cool sometimes.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Chris Malayter <mustangthz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 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
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Martin Hannigan <hannigan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 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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