From gjohansson@pipeline.com Mon Sep 23 19:06:01 1996
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From: gjohansson@pipeline.com (Göran Johansson)
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Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again
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Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed.

Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives.
One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites?

When all 14 nodes are synchronized, where does the final relay terminate?

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Göran Johansson
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From meriksson@kiae.su Wed Sep 25 04:03:01 1996
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From: meriksson@kiae.su (Marisol Eriksson)
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Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 04:03:01 GMT
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In article <1996Sep23.190601.3353@pipeline.com>, gjohansson@pipeline.com (Göran Johansson) writes:
> Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed.
> Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives.

Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit!

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Marisol Eriksson
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