NASA to Boost Speed of Deep Space Communications

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/space-communication-network-speed-100122.html

by MetricMike • 16 years ago

3 1 16 years ago

MetricMike• 16 years ago

I'm taking a networking class in my CS program and one of the (at least, I think) interesting topics we covered was the distance issue when linking two nodes together on a network. We got around to talking about really big networks (like the Internet) or a hypothetical Earth+Moon Future Internet. Another student and I had our dreams of low-grav YouTube broken when the teacher showed us the more gritty parts of how two nodes talk on a network, namely the round trip delay. This article sounded really neat and made me remember that NASA usually comes up with some very interesting workarounds/solutions.

(This is my first contribution to HN after about a year of lurking so I thought I'd make my post a bit more meaningful and explain why I thought this was neat.)

NASA to Boost Speed of Deep Space Communications

Related Stories