CISCO Renews Space Race with Satellite IP Router Launch
In a joint project with the Department of Defense, CISCO Systems has successfully combined two of our favorite things: outer space and the internet. The project is known as Internet Routing In Space (IRIS for short) and aims to expand and optimize mobile data networks. By transferring data directly to multiple users on the ground simultaneously without the need for intermediary signal routing stations, IRIS will reduce download latency and extend coverage beyond existing 3G service areas. A communications satellite equipped with a special radiation-tolerant IP router has been launched into geosynchronous orbit, and the results of a series of initial tests are positive. Although CISCO's claims of "constant and pervasive" internet access sounds ominous, the potential benefits of a reliable, flexible, and universal data network for commercial, private, and military communication cannot be overstated.
The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no service which expects to be the leader of IT Support can expect to stay behind in this race for space. Student Experts means to be a part of it--we mean to lead it. In short, our expertise in diagnostics and upgrades, our experience in security and prevention, our obligations to Macs as well as PCs, all require us to become the world's leading space-faring IT Support Firm. There is no malware, no fragmentation, no data backup services in outer space as yet. We choose to go to space and provide skilled tech support, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, and because someone will have to unplug the IRIS, and then plug it back in.
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