RE: Satellites running IP

From: Ahmed, Masuma ([email protected])
Date: Fri Jun 14 2002 - 17:39:43 EDT

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    At the present time, to my knowledge there is no existing satellite systems
    in orbit that supports on-board IP processing and routing.
    Teledesic has design concepts for IP routing on-board and Astrolink has ATM
    switching capability on-board. However,
    none of these systems is flying today. Existing commercial systems like
    Inmarsat and Cyberstar use IP interface at the ground
    to support Internet applications but the space itself is transparent to IP.
    NASA ACTS may be the only one today that supports
    on-board digital processing (e.g., SONET frames) and not bent pipe
    transponder systems.

    regards.

    masuma

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    Dr. Masuma Ahmed
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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Adrian J. Hooke [SMTP:[email protected]]
    > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:56 PM
    > To: [email protected]; David Carek
    > Subject: Re: Satellites running IP
    >
    > At 02:56 PM 6/13/2002 -0400, David Carek wrote:
    >
    >
    > I'm looking for existing satellites that use IP or other Internet
    > protocols on board or in their air to ground communications. If you know
    > of any currently flying satellites with such capabilities I'd appreciate
    > the references.
    >
    >
    > David: what problems are you trying to solve, and why?
    >
    > At 04:02 PM 6/14/2002 -0400, William Ivancic wrote:
    >
    >
    > ??? I don't understand the comment. I'm taking SCPS-TP end-to-end,
    > not SCPS-TP as a gateway.
    >
    >
    > And in what operational configurations are you trying to solve them?
    >
    > ///adrian
    >



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