Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space
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Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space
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Re: Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space
#2What about neutrino communication? It's the biggest spectrum we haven't analyzed yet and it would perfectly make sense for an advanced civilization because it pass through matter much better than any other alternative.
Re: Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space
#3What about neutrino communication? It's the biggest spectrum we haven't analyzed yet and it would perfectly make sense for an advanced civilization because it pass through matter much better than any other alternative.
Passing through matter isn't a big problem with interplanetary communication? With a few antennas distributed around the respective planets (and a few in orbit if you want to work during eclipses) you can ensure line-of-sight transmission.
Re: Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space
#4What about neutrino communication? It's the biggest spectrum we haven't analyzed yet and it would perfectly make sense for an advanced civilization because it pass through matter much better than any other alternative.
Did anyone do High Frequency Trading with neutrinos yet?
Re: Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space
#5I've always wondered about the feasibility of using space for temporary/short-term storage needs.
I remember a time when, as a junior developer, I'd log into operations, and hand the operator my tape reel with my work for the day - and she'd go off, mount the spool, and start the streaming, until my files were available in local storage for a few hours, and then .. when logging out, I'd have the operator re-stream the files, and off we go ..
So, why not use space as a large tape buffer? Send the satellites off, 20 minutes of light-speed away, and use the big gap as a cache.
Seems sorta feasible to me, but I guess I'm overlooking some ridiculously obvious factor, such as launch costs, viability, etc. But really, seems like a fleet of satellites spread out around the solar system could function as quite a nice medium ..
Re: Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space
#6I've always wondered about the feasibility of using space for temporary/short-term storage needs. I remember a time when, as a junior developer, I'd log into operations, and hand the operator my tape reel with my work for the day - and she'd go off, mount the spool, and start the streaming, until my files were available in local storage for a few hours, and then .. when logging out, I'd have the operator re-stream th…
I think the thing that you're missing is that there's no shortage of physical space right here? Said differently, why not build that satellite, load it up, and instead of launching it.... put it in the closet. Get it out when you need it. What advantages does that launch have?
Re: Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space
#7The protocols are interesting, but it seems to me that point-to-point is more applicable in the vast emptiness that is outer space. Why send a packet to Mars when Jupiter is 5° to the left and I have a clear line of sight to both?
Re: Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space
#8I remember talking to him about this in the late 1990s. He might have been talking at Comdex or somewhere.
Re: Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space
#9The protocols are interesting, but it seems to me that point-to-point is more applicable in the vast emptiness that is outer space. Why send a packet to Mars when Jupiter is 5° to the left and I have a clear line of sight to both?
That's a routing question, nothing in the transport protocols preclude that.
If your router decides it has a direct route to Jupiter then it probably won't hop to Mars.
Re: Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space
#10I've always wondered about the feasibility of using space for temporary/short-term storage needs. I remember a time when, as a junior developer, I'd log into operations, and hand the operator my tape reel with my work for the day - and she'd go off, mount the spool, and start the streaming, until my files were available in local storage for a few hours, and then .. when logging out, I'd have the operator re-stream th…
I think the thing that you're missing is that there's no shortage of physical space right here? Said differently, why not build that satellite, load it up, and instead of launching it.... put it in the closet. Get it out when you need it. What advantages does that launch have?
GP doesn't want to store the data on the satellite, but rather use the space in-between as a Friday line storage. The satellite would be a repeater that retransmits what it receives. If it was 20 light minutes away, there would be 40 minutes worth of data in transit, so the whole system could store 40 minutes long circular buffer.