NASA Taking Ethernet Into Deeper Space 77
coondoggie writes "While Ethernet technology has gone places no one would have envisioned 36 years ago, NASA today signed an agreement with a German Ethernet vendor to build highly fault-tolerant networks for space-based applications.
TTTech builds a set of time-triggered services called TTEthernet that is implemented on top of standard IEEE802.3 Ethernet. Its technology is designed to enable design of synchronous, highly dependable embedded computing and networking, capable of tolerating multiple faults, the company said."
Too much Cat-5 (Score:5, Funny)
At those distances, I'd have gone wireless. Wait to string ethernet to the space station until we're done with the space elevator.
Didn't they watch BS:G? (Score:2, Funny)
Networking on board spaceships is bad. The Cylons can tap into them.
Someone had to do it... (Score:5, Funny)
Would that be Aethernet?
More here [wikipedia.org]
Very fragile network (Score:3, Funny)
If you take down the sun, the entire network would fall apart in 8 minutes flat.
I'd have taken it all the way to subspace (Score:3, Funny)
...but for those who go through life at impulse power, I suppose this will do.
Re:Too much Cat-5 (Score:3, Funny)
Dont be so short sighted. We should run Cat6, if not fiber.
Just what we need... (Score:2, Funny)
Silly NASA, you only get 100m per segment (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Someone had to do it... (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, I was wondering how you're going to do Ethernet without the ether.
Only one thing to say: (Score:5, Funny)
LAAAAG!
Re:Too much Cat-5 (Score:4, Funny)
Agreed. I also hope they have it in conduits or something. Otherwise, somebody is will trip over it and pull the space station out of orbit.
space ethernet (Score:1, Funny)
because when we build a lunar colony or send explorers to mars, they will need porn too.
Re:Too much Cat-5 (Score:4, Funny)
I can't wait to see the looks on their faces at the ISS when the backhoe shows up.
Re:Only one thing to say: (Score:3, Funny)
With practice, the pigeons will get faster at putting on their little space suits and the lag will get better.
"I think USB should be enough for anyone . . . " (Score:3, Funny)
. . . and during those long, boring missions the astronauts can amuse themselves by untangling all those cables.
Which would make a good high school space project: do USB cables tangle up in space, while under weightless conditions?
If so, I'll take one look at the situation under my desk, and move into outer space.
Plus, USB is cheap; companies give away hubs and memory sticks as advertising. NASA could keep costs down by scrounging USB gear.
Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny)
Actually TTTech is an Austrian company (founded in Vienna), there are no kangaroos here but a lot of mountains and we speak German. However great world leader Barack Obama recently suggested us to have our own Austrian language: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAmaGgBrDAs ;)
The Austrians in comparison to the Germans are like the Kiwis are to the Australians, people always get us mixed up.
Re:Didn't they watch BS:G? (Score:2, Funny)
I'd love to shove a... ehem... "fiber"... into another kind of "wrist" on that cute asian one, and immobilize it with multiple orgasms. ^^
Imagine the whole fleet, including the base-stars and hunters having constant orgasms. Would be a funny sight... Until they "cum" with all their nukes at once.
Re:Just what we need... (Score:4, Funny)
Easy... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh noes! (Score:5, Funny)