Venezuela: Fiber-Optic Cable to Cuba Is Working

[joshcryer]

1. Of course it is working. It was working 3 months ago.

The first thing you do when you lay cable is to hook it up, to make sure it works! IP's were likely propagated and DNS was likely set up within a few days of the cable making landfall. The entire infrastructure was likely already set up. You don't just roll a cable out and pow, magically have it.

Cuba is such a small country they could roll it out wirelessly in weeks. Hell, they can just give it to the people and since they already have thousands of clandestine networks set up all they would have to do is put the wifi points in ad hoc mesh mode (which any good router can do, install DD-WRT on it, if the firmware doesn't originally have it). Pow, you just gave internet to an entire city.

The bloggers predicted months ago that the fiber wouldn't be hooked up for the masses. It's not for the citizens, it's for the elites, for the most part. To roll it out for the masses would require a lot of planning to be able to monitor activities as the Cuban government has done in the past.