-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 4 Sep 1995, tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) wrote:
From Bruce Sterling in "Islands in the Net" to various reports of data havens and Internet services being set up by actual people, there has been much speculation about using Caribbean islands for data havens.
But the infrastructure has been lacking. Low-bandwidth inter-island links.
And now yet another huge hurricane is bearing down on the Lesser Antilles, heading directly for Puerto Rico and Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic).
"Outages" lasting days or weeks after these islands get torn up every few years will not go too well with international commerce.
Some fixes may help:
* higher-bandwidth connections, e.g., undersea fiber.
I don't have the citation handy, but I recall reading that Cable & Wireless has plans to link much of the region via undersea fiber over the next few years. I think it will be a simple North-South line -- Virgin Islands to Trinidad and Tobago or something like that, bypassing the Caymans, etc. The cost of the project is outweighed by the gains of eliminating these recurring weather-related outages. In fact, someone (Duncan?) may have posted the press release here over a year ago. Alan Westrope <awestrop@nyx10.cs.du.edu> __________/|-, <adwestro@ouray.cudenver.edu> (_) \|-' 2.6.2 public key: finger / servers PGP 0xB8359639: D6 89 74 03 77 C8 2D 43 7C CA 6D 57 29 25 69 23 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMEs3CVRRFMq4NZY5AQG1bQP/SpX3Q4oVYy1BZMALu5jCWOZPi9h1DCNn hJQ//+sRstVRhq3Alek2KHqLtO0lJdngD0RO/zrWwfy+49wFjgplyfSpwlVMFPh/ DrUxZcl3yRkfzTt+4pJtrAjuKGz6uKtbMnZ5NlCI19K9csqt2z4Di93nGwQYDG12 RccfMnhsT6Y= =Bcpk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----