On 17/Mar/20 18:44, Paul Nash wrote:
> September 2001. Just after the 9/11 attacks, all of lower Manhattan was shut
> down. Out link (IIRC) was to a satellite farm on Staten island, across the
> bay to 60 Hudson. Power went off, diesels kicked in, fuel trucks was not
> allowed in, and a few days later we lost all international connectivity.
>
> Lots of important people lost power as well, so the feds decided to let the
> diesel tankers in after a few days’ deliberations.
Ah, okay. That must have been unique to South Africa, I imagine?
My recollection during that month was we still had connectivity. We
routed our services via PanAmSat's PAS-3R (which later became Intelsat
3R after the acquisition) and landed in their Atlanta teleport. We
weren't impacted, in Uganda, at the time, nor I recall any other outages
in Kenya, Tanzania or Rwanda either.
I'm reminded how, from Uganda, PAS-3R was such a shallow bird, ±6° :-).
Mark.
