Discovering and preventing a communications disruption in a mobile environment

1. A method to discover and prevent a communications disruption in a mobile environment comprising:

receiving data at a mobile platform from a geographical database, wherein the data from the geographical database comprising at least one of terrain, structures and foliage;

receiving data, at the mobile platform, from a weather database, wherein the data from the weather database comprising precipitation data;

determining at the mobile platform if the mobile platform will be blocked by a blockage event from accessing a network in response to the data extracted from the geographical database;

determining at the mobile platform if the mobile platform will be in an environment of precipitation in response to the precipitation data from the weather database; and

avoiding the blockage event if it is determined that the mobile platform will be blocked from accessing the network based on the data extracted from the geographical database and the precipitation data from the weather database,

wherein avoiding the blockage event comprises changing at least one of:

a route of the mobile platform; or

a communications path if a preference of a user is to continue using a current waveform at a modem; or

system parameters of a modem if a preference of a user is to discontinue using a current waveform on a modem; or

a current waveform on a modem to use more channel capacity if it is determined in response to the precipitation data that the mobile platform will not be in the environment of precipitation.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein avoiding the blockage event comprises changing one of a route of the mobile platform or a communications path if a preference of a user is to continuing using a current waveform at a modem.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein avoiding the blockage event comprises changing system parameters of a modem if a preference of a user is to discontinue using a current waveform at a modem.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein changing the system parameters comprises at least one of:

changing a waveform on the modem;

increasing a transmit power of the modem;

increasing a data generated by the modem;

changing modulation at the modem; and

changing coding at the modem.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving data at the mobile platform from the geographical database comprises receiving data at the mobile platform from an open source database.

6. An article, comprising:

a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores executable instructions to discover and prevent a communications disruption in a mobile environment, the instructions causing a machine to:

receive data at a mobile platform from a geographical database, wherein the data from the geographical database comprising at least one of terrain, structures and foliage;

receive data, at the mobile platform, from a weather database, wherein the data from the weather database comprising precipitation data;

determine at the mobile platform if the mobile platform will be blocked by a blockage event from accessing a network in response to the data extracted from the geographical database;

determine at the mobile platform if the mobile platform will be in an environment of precipitation in response to the precipitation data from the weather database; and

avoid the blockage event if it is determined that the mobile platform will be blocked from accessing the network based on the data extracted from the geographical database and the precipitation data from the weather database, wherein the instructions causing the machine to avoid the blockage event comprises the instructions causing the machine to change at least one of:

a route of the mobile platform; or

a communications path if a preference of a user is to continue using a current waveform at a modem; or

system parameters of a modem if a preference of a user is to discontinue using a current waveform on a modem; or

a current waveform on a modem to use more channel capacity if it is determined in response to the precipitation data that the mobile platform will not be in the environment of precipitation.

7. The article of claim 6 wherein the instructions causing the machine to avoid the blockage event comprises instructions causing the machine to change one of a route of the mobile platform or a communications path if a preference of a user is to continuing using a current waveform at a modem.

8. The article of claim 6 wherein the instructions causing the machine to avoid the blockage event comprises instructions causing the machine to change system parameters of a modem if a preference of a user is to discontinue using a current waveform at a modem.

9. The article of claim 8 wherein the instructions causing the machine to change the system parameters comprises at least one of instructions causing the machine to:

change a waveform on the modem;

increase a transmit power of the modem;

increase a data generated by the modem;

change modulation at the modem; and

change coding at the modem.

10. The article of claim 6 wherein the instructions causing the machine to receive data at the mobile platform from the geographical database comprises instructions causing the machine to receive data at the mobile platform from an open source database.

11. An apparatus to discover and prevent a communications disruption in a mobile environment, comprising:

hardware circuitry to:

receive data at a mobile platform from a geographical database, wherein the data from the geographical database comprising at least one of terrain, structures and foliage;

receive data, at the mobile platform, from a weather database, wherein the data from the weather database comprising precipitation data;

determine at the mobile platform if the mobile platform will be blocked by a blockage event from accessing a network in response to the data extracted from the geographical database;

determine at the mobile platform if the mobile platform will be in an environment of precipitation in response to the precipitation data from the weather database; and

avoid the blockage event if it is determined that the mobile platform will be blocked from accessing the network based on the data extracted from the geographical database and the precipitation data from the weather database, wherein the hardware circuitry to avoid the blockage event comprises hardware circuitry to change at least one of:

a route of the mobile platform; or

a communications path if a preference of a user is to continue using a current waveform at a modem; or

system parameters of a modem if a preference of a user is to discontinue using a current on the modem; or

a current waveform on a modem to use more channel capacity if it is determined in response to the precipitation data that the mobile platform will not be in the environment of precipitation.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the hardware circuitry comprises at least one of a processor, a memory, programmable logic and logic gates.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the hardware circuitry to avoid the blockage event comprises circuitry to change one of a route of the mobile platform or a communications path if a preference of a user is to continuing using a current waveform at a modem.

14. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the hardware circuitry to avoid the blockage event comprises circuitry to change system parameters of a modem if a preference of a user is to discontinue using a current waveform at a modem.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the hardware circuitry to change the system parameters comprises at least one of circuitry to:

change a waveform on the modem;

increase a transmit power of the modem;

increase a data generated by the modem;

change modulation at the modem; and

change coding at the modem.

16. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the hardware circuitry to receive data at the mobile platform from the geographical database comprises circuitry to receive data at a mobile platform from an open source database.