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Iridium!!
Iridium!!
I think it will be BushNet
I think it will be BushNet !!
Nasa is just creating more blackholes and spoiling the pure earth atmosphere with US crap !!
Disgusting !!!
Welcome!
I, for one, welcome our new Terminator overlords!
U.S. Military Plans ...
This article is incomplete - it doesn't mention NASA's TDRS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite) network. How does TDRS compare to IRIS ? Please expand your article.
P.S. Your comment form is bent - it seems to only allow me to comment on that "Skynet!" remark instead of on the article. Anon.
Misleading about existing & prior space routing
The article is a nice bit of information about the specific event of testing slightly modified COTS IP routing gear in space. But the author totally misrepresents what this is about when he fails to strongly qualify ‘network’ everywhere so it’s obvious this is only a first for commercially, publically available routing data network via COTS gear on satellites.
Comments posted already have mentioned some of the prior space born routing networks.
The military side has certainly had routing on some of that 50%+ of satellites that have unknown capacities. And Cisco does have a "Defense, Space & Security division" as the article mentions. Commercial routing gear also undoubtedly exists also on the international space station. Maybe many routers both on the open side and in the military modules. And I’ll bet they link to the shuttles, satellites and many ground stations.
The article seems unintentionally or intentionally slanted by innuendo and incompleteness to make it seem like this may lead to the first real network routing in space.
Not that I don't believe you but....
Can you prove it? I was very surprised that it doesn't exist already. If I worked for NASA or was a company putting a satellite into space for communications, it would've been the first thing that I would've looked into. BUT, some of us techies have no common sense & are arrogant. If you have proof, I would believe you, it's a simple solution. But, as I mentioned, some of us engineers have zero common sense.
The companies don't hire people who think, they hire people who do what they are told to do. Americans are thinking like foreigners used to think and vice versa. "Yankee Ingenuity" seems to be a thing of the past since companys hire based on personality versus potential and open minded thinking.
We need to go back to the basics. After WW2, instead of listening to the best & brightest, we sent them to Japan. And guess what, Japan listened. They still don't typically come up with new ideas, they follow directions and do the best of their ability to complete projects correctly.
If we are going to be the best we need to use our best and trust them with their ideas.