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Re:Starlink internet satellites keep emergency workers onlin... by guardiangod on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:49PM (#24645991)
Maybe the outbound fiber link for Ziply CO is damaged by the wildfire? It's probably on poles instead of buried due to cost reason. If that's the case, then the CO would route all traffic thru Starlink.
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Re:Starlink internet satellites keep emergency workers onlin... by walrus01 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:14AM (#24647574)
You can't just take a legacy telco CO full of things like Cisco 15454s with OC-12/OC-48 SDH/SONET interface cards, linked to the nearest major city by SDH/TDM circuits, and pipe it through a gigabit ethernet link into a power over ethernet powered (microwave, millimeter wave or satellte) thing on the roof.

If you look around in a place like that you'll see fun things like 1RU rackmount DS3-to-DS1 mux devices connected to legacy TDM transport gear, for SS7/PSTN links, 911 and such.

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