Friends of Acq
Gateway Sites
Location Z
Mux Mux Mux
Fiber
100

This person lives in a tiny house

Who is Jane?

100

The primary cause for gateway site outages?

What is mother nature?

What is unreliable power?

100

The carrier neutral entrance facility in a datacenter

what is a meet-me room?

100

The throughput of a V4 antenna

What is 100G?

100

the location that hosts optic equipment next to the gateway

what is a terminal node?

200

The group who will be deploying optical equipment at first 12 sites (and only first 12)

Who is Ciena?

200

# of antenna where dark fiber connectivity is generally cost advantageous over wave fiber.

What is 9?

200

The 2 primary ways to protect against power outages 

What is dual power feed/ A+B power feed?

What is UPS?

200

This asset is especially susceptible when exposed to temperature changes and precipitation

What is aerial fiber?

200

The location where generally 1 pair of fiber meets up with 32 pairs

What is a terminal node?

What is a site patch panel?

300

Antonio, Ben, Billy, Carey, DaRyan, Kenneths, Larry

What is NOC team?

300

This type fiber generally has high dB loss

What is metro fiber?

What is LEAF/TrueWave/G.653 fiber?

300

free parking & wifi

What are SpaceX PoP Requirements?

300

I require 2000W and 21 rack units

What is "Gateway to PoP" Optical Hardware?

300

The minimum # of fiber circuits per V2 Gateway site

What is 2?

400

Their senior thesis was named "Timing Offset and Quantization Error Trade-off in Interleaved Multi-Channel Measurements." 

Who is Joe McMichael?

400
  • Gateway antennas, shipped on their concrete base
  • pre-terminated fiber cables, for the connections from central patch panel to each antenna.
  • safety signs, in English
  • padlocks for the site & electrical boxes (including the combinations)
  • weather station
  • UT (for out-of-band communication)
  • spare optics

What is the site kit that spacex sends site hosts?

400

Primary difference between V1 SpaceX PoPs and V2 SpaceX PoPs

What is number of PoPs per metro?

What is lighting our own fiber network?

400

I make up the optics equipment set of a terminal node

What is a muxponder, Mux/Demux, and OTDR?

400

0.33 dB/km @1550nm for 40-60kmspans

What is max dB loss for point to point fiber topology?

500

This person worked for Google and the US Dept of State before coming to SpaceX

Who is Brian Schepis?

500

The weight breakdown of V4 Antenna

What is: 

~1725kb (~3800lbs) total per antenna

  • ~400kg (~880lbs) antenna + radome + pedestal
  • ~100kg (~220lbs) battery boxes
  • 1225kg (2700lbs) concrete base
500

This makes up ~80% operational expenses for a datacenter

What is energy?

500

The management interfaces (or serial ports) for managing networking equipment

What is Out of Band Management?

500

The fiber spec testing type for a bundle of fibers

What is 1310nm OTDR?