Re: [asterisk-biz] Antarctica.

On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 16:41 -0700, John Todd wrote:
> Orbcomm, to my knowledge, is data-only and slow, asynchronous data at
> that. I used them extensively for a vehicle tracking company I ran a
> while back. I have a basement full of various Orbcomm gear, including
> three new GSC100 handhelds - anyone want to make me an offer on it?
> It still works great; in fact, they recently launched a few more birds.
>
> The link to Palmer Station is geostationary, as are most ground
> stations. I don't know which satellite is used for the Internet/voice
> traffic. McMurdo and Scott are connected via Telecom New Zealand
> satellite. See notes herein:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Base
>
> I seem to recall someone telling me that there were experiments with
> Asterisk at McMurdo. More information would be interesting if anyone
> has details.
>
> JT
>

Have a look at the following report:

http://searchvoip.techtarget.com.au/articles/23710-Australian-Antarctic-Division-adopts-Asterisk

We provided the training for them.

Paul
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