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Interplanetary Internet Tested In Space

Posted by timothy on from the best-place-for-it-really dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "After Vint Cerf planned the Interplanetary Internet, there's a press release saying that the Interplanetary Internet is now being tested in space, using the Bundle Protocol developed by the Delay-Tolerant Networking Research Group. There's a conference paper with details on the testing too. These guys were previously the first to test IPv6 in space. Now they've found something with even fewer users than IPv6 to play with!"

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  1. Re:Can you hear me now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your countdown must not like even numbers...

  2. Re:Department of Redundancy Department by compro01 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    On a different planet?

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  4. Re:What's the point? by John+Meacham · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So those limited robotic probes can communicate of course. Not having to invent a whole new protocol and being able to re-use existing sattelites for retransmission is a big win for future missions.

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