RE: Satellites running IP

From: William Ivancic ([email protected])
Date: Wed Jun 19 2002 - 13:29:00 EDT

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    At 09:14 AM 6/19/02 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
    >Adrian,
    >The niche for these gateways is so small that I don't see a driving need for
    >a standard. However, better yet would be if there was a way for all common
    >stacks (read Windows, etc.) to "detect" a long latency link and tune
    >themselves appropriately, so gateways were not required.

    There is lots of research being done in this area, but nothing is yet
    proven and tested in the sufficiently open networks to then take these to
    standards. Most are still very much research. I expect this will come in
    the future - maybe 3 to 5 years. However, it is not here today.

    Will



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