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And Starlink Moon edition will have a paltry 2.6 seconds of roundtrip latency to Earth. Mars colonization gets all the hype, but who in their right mind would w
by dougmwne 5y ago
And Starlink Moon edition will have a paltry 2.6 seconds of roundtrip latency to Earth. Mars colonization gets all the hype, but who in their right mind would want to be a 40 minute roundtrip ping from the nearest AWS location?
- oceanswave 5y agoI guess it’s going to be Microsoft landing a datacenter-in-a-shipping-container on Mars before AWS does something similar at the rate that Blue Origin is going.
- dougmwne 5y agoI am legitimately jealous of the engineer that gets to design how that CDN cache operates.
- _Microft 5y agoI will leave the following links here, just for the off-chance that you might find them interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
- azernik 5y agoThe relevant RFCs are also fascinating https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4838 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4838 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5050 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5050
- bane 5y agoMaybe Amazon needs to think about a Mars region.
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- m3at 5y agoThe InterPlanetary File System [1] to the rescue! [1] https://ipfs.io/ https://ipfs.io/
- edgyquant 5y agoNot really, there is still a minimum of 3 minute latency (at its closest to Earth.)