[Chapter-delegates] Alternate ways to provide network services to remote regions...

[David Vyorst]

A big +1


On Friday, June 21, 2013, Michael Snell wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> There has been a lot of interest in Google's Project Loon on this mailing
> list. You might be interested in an article I just posted to the
> InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group's (IPNSIG) website, which
> talks about a proposed network of nano-satellites (called CubeSats),
> working in conjunction with Delay & Disruption Tolerant Networking
> protocols (DTN) to deliver basic network services to essentially all
> populated regions of the earth.
>
> DTN was developed by Vint Cerf and a group of researchers from the Jet
> Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to overcome the limitations of TCP/IP networks
> in operating over interplanetary distances. This work started in the late
> 1990's and has resulted in a number of RFC's being published. That work has
> been further developed by the Delay & Disruption Tolerant Networking Group
> (DTNRG) working under the auspices of the Internet Research Task Force
> (IRTF). Although originally designed to deal with the constraints of space
> communications, DTN has many useful terrestrial applications.
>
> The article with links to a paper written by Scott Burleigh (NASA/JPL) and
> Edward Birrane of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins
> University can be found at:
>
>
> http://ipnsig.org/2013/06/21/dtn-cubesats-low-cost-reliable-network-services-to-remote-regions/
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mike Snell
> President, San Francisco Bay Area ISOC
> Secretray/Treasurer, IPNSIG
>


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