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NASA Taking Ethernet Into Deeper Space

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. It's called AFDX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They already have Fault tolerant ethernet used in avionics systems called AFDX - why pay a foreign company to design an entirely new version of something we already have?

    1. Re:It's called AFDX by Waste55 · · Score: 1, Insightful

      The key here is time triggered. This is building on top of current AFDX systems.