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Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!)
From: Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:52:25 -0800 (PST)
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Richard Irving wrote:
Jupiter , the run between mars and jupiter is a midway point. OneCall will *not* peer with anyone not a the Jupiter NAP.
I'm working on the design of an interstellar packet transport. The basic idea is that we record the packet stream for a couple of days onto a RAID array with fifty 96 terabyte drives, then load the array on a starship to make a hyperspace jump to the destination. At the other end, the packet stream is replayed and an incoming packet stream is recorded and then sent back the same way. The latency for telnet sessions is pretty horrible but at least it can be done if you are patient and it's cheaper than sending an Internet engineer through hyperspace. We're planning on also offering an FTL version where the return packets will arrive before the outgoing packets have left. But we still have some problems to work out with RTT before we can do this. And no, this is *NOT* an April Fools joke... ...for the obvious reason :-) -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: michael () memra com Check the website for my Internet World articles - http://www.memra.com
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- Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!) Steve Feldman (Mar 12)
- Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!) Richard Irving (Mar 12)
- Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!) Michael Dillon (Mar 12)
- Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!) Jeff Mcadams (Mar 12)
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- Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!) Jay R. Ashworth (Mar 13)
- Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!) Michael Dillon (Mar 12)
- Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!) Derek Balling (Mar 12)
- Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!) Richard Irving (Mar 12)
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- Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!) Jeff Aitken (Mar 12)
- Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!) stephen wolff (Mar 12)