ISS Upgrades LAN

Ethernet LANs have been used everywhere from the data center to the home and even the Starbucks around the corner. But space could very well be the final frontier for the technology. On the Columbus module in the Atlantis Space Shuttle that rendezvoused on Feb. 16 with the International Space Station, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company installed customized ProCurve 100 Mbps LAN switches designed to connect not only computers on the ISS, but also scientific test and measurement equipment."Originally we only had connected our computers with the 10 megabit LAN, but we felt it wasn't fast enough. We wanted higher performance for the payloads. So we built the system to support scientific payloads accommodated in 19 inch racks, with those payloads connected to the LAN," said Rolf Schmidhuber, Columbus data management system technology leader for EADS Space Transportation in Bremen, Germany. Read full story...

 


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