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First Ethernet Switch In Space

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the iss-lan-party-arrives dept.

Rebecca will you marry me? writes "The ESA's Columbus laboratory module was added to the International Space Station in February, but Hewlett-Packard has only now chosen to reveal that the LAN onboard Columbus uses a ProCurve 2524 switch." HP admits it was the "most unusual and demanding" project ProCurve has done yet.

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  1. Title is misleading by N3TW4LK3R · · Score: 5, Informative

    From TFA: "Two redundant LAN switches, developed by the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) Astrium, already operate in the ISS network core and now have been joined by HP's ProCurve 2524 switch"

    I sent this in an e-mail to Taco when the article was still in the 'mysterious future' but that message must have been stopped by his spam filter or something.

    Yeah yeah, I must be new here ;)

  2. Re:And this is interesting because? by thomasdz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Extended G-forces during launch might be a good test of how well solder joints, connectors, and other components are made.

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  3. The "HAM" sats did it a decade ago by mbone · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Amateur Radio satellites went to an Ethernet backbone some time ago - over a decade IIRC.