NASA Taking Ethernet Into Deeper Space

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @07:00AM from the once-i-took-it-into-my-bathroom dept.

coondoggie writes "While Ethernet technology has gone places no one would have envisioned 36 years ago, NASA today signed an agreement with a German Ethernet vendor to build highly fault-tolerant networks for space-based applications. TTTech builds a set of time-triggered services called TTEthernet that is implemented on top of standard IEEE802.3 Ethernet. Its technology is designed to enable design of synchronous, highly dependable embedded computing and networking, capable of tolerating multiple faults, the company said."

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Re:Too much Cat-5 by sgt+scrub · 2009-04-14 07:17 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Do it the way the pros do. Wait until the government promises you a tax write off then just don't do it. It worked for the telco's.

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Re:Too much Cat-5 by peragrin · 2009-04-14 09:12 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I have heard about digging the last mile. I wonder how much time warner is gonna charge NASA for it?

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