Satellite outage knocks out thousands of Enercon's wind turbines

Re:Satellite outage knocks out thousands of Enercon's wind t... by LargoLasskhyfv on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:06PM (#30507105)

I wonder why the use 'radio' at all, since they need a cable anyway. Too cheap to have tossed a fiber along it?

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Re:Satellite outage knocks out thousands of Enercon's wind t... by Nextgrid on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @01:44PM (#30518179)

I feel stupid for not even thinking about it but you're absolutely correct.

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Re:Satellite outage knocks out thousands of Enercon's wind t... by LargoLasskhyfv on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @11:53PM (#30523892)

I've meanwhile read that they are networked very well, with fibre even, but only between each other when built in a park/farm. And often very remote, far from other inftastructure. The problem arises at the transfer/injection point from the utitility one level up. Not always, but sometimes, and in different ways. It can happen that there is no 3/4g at all there. It can happen that the other utility isn't networked(in a usable way). It can happen that the other utility doesn't want to network for whichever reasons, security, etc. And it can happen that you get 1Gb/s symmetrical there.

Apparently Enercon choose to offer its clients this solution as 'carefree package', to spare them the regulatory/bureaurocratic hassle of having to deal with this.

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Re:Satellite outage knocks out thousands of Enercon's wind t... by robbedpeter on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @12:00AM (#30509835)

They didn't consult IT before deploying the project.

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