CiscoZine » IRIS http://www.ciscozine.com Daily reporting on Cisco technology Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:30:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Cisco goes to space http://www.ciscozine.com/2010/01/21/cisco-goes-to-space/ http://www.ciscozine.com/2010/01/21/cisco-goes-to-space/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:44:56 +0000 Fabio Semperboni http://www.ciscozine.com/?p=757 Cisco Systems wants to put a router on every communications satellite.

The networking giant has already sent the first one into space.
The company announced that the router has successfully completed initial in-orbit tests, after being launched Nov. 23 aboard the Intelsat 14 communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit, 22,300 miles above the Earth.

The move is one small step in a bold, new Cisco initiative dubbed Internet Routing in Space (IRIS), which company executives say extends the same Internet protocol-based (IP) technology used to build the World Wide Web into the heavens. The long-term goal, they say, is to route voice, data and video traffic between satellites over a single IP network in ways that are more efficient, flexible and cost effective than is possible over today’s fragmented satellite communications networks. (...)
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