[Starlink] Seminar TODAY on Zoom (on Tonga cable outage and things learned )

[Ulrich Speidel <ulrich@cs.auckland.ac.nz>]

Putting a last minute plug in for myself, for those on the list that are 
interested. I'm giving a seminar today:

When: Thursday 24 February, 1 pm NZDT (that's Wednesday 23 February, 7 
pm Eastern Time or midnight UTC), via Zoom: 
https://auckland.zoom.us/j/94133794419?pwd=bmNxbThQVWYxOEFObGkxa2QvVlYrUT09

Abstract: Over the last five weeks, I've observed the effort to 
reconnect Tonga to the Internet with privileged access and got work with 
a number of great people from a huge diversity of backgrounds. This 
seminar will be a stock take on what we know so far as to why the 
international fibre optic cable connection to Tonga failed in the 
aftermath of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption (hint: It 
wasn't the volcanic blast itself nor the tsunami that followed). I'll 
look at why satellite services struggled to fill the breach initially, 
at what was done to repair the cable, and about what the cable ship's 
movements and initial findings tell us and what this potentially means 
for fibre optic submarine communication elsewhere.

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Dr. Ulrich Speidel

School of Computer Science

Room 303S.594 (City Campus)

The University of Auckland
u.speidel@auckland.ac.nz
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~ulrich/
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