Re: (!) Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (!)
This leads to the obvious (for me, anyway) question of NAP placement. It seems to me that multiple providers on Mars wouldn't want to backhaul traffic all the way to Earth just to talk across the canal... MAE-Mars? Sorry, it's Friday afternoon. :) Steve
Jupiter , the run between mars and jupiter is a midway point. OneCall will *not* peer with anyone not a the Jupiter NAP. Richard Any votes ? Steve Feldman wrote:
This leads to the obvious (for me, anyway) question of NAP placement.
It seems to me that multiple providers on Mars wouldn't want to backhaul traffic all the way to Earth just to talk across the canal...
MAE-Mars?
Sorry, it's Friday afternoon. :)
Steve
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
Thus spake Michael Dillon
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.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of an interstellar packet transport hurtling down the galactic highway at Hiperspace speeds? -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 10:59:52PM -0500, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Never underestimate the bandwidth of an interstellar packet transport hurtling down the galactic highway at Hiperspace speeds?
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a starship full of datadiscs. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592
At 07:52 PM 3/12/99 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote:
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.
To improve speed in processing, let the response packets tell the sender what the CRC's for the outbound packets were, so the sender doesn't need to calculate them. :)
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