On 4/9/07, Christian Kuhtz <christian@kuhtz.com> wrote:
I'm looking forward to a future where pc104/isa bus based routers figure prominently in the ip core!
Have recently checked the weight requirements for core routers? Seriously heavy lift capacity launch vehicles would be required... not to mention the drag encountered in LEO would likely also be considerable and not yield good uptime.
I think "core" has a different meaning when the box doing the routing is in LEO or even geosync orbit. It's not going to be some behemoth pushing 10GigE, it's going to be a hardened box pushing packets to either the moon, mars, or in-transit craft via RF or laser (depending on bandwidth requirements). I would think weight would be on par with something such as the Hubble (perhaps even lighter). -brandon