Cisco Pushes Vision of IP-Based Satellite, Ground Systems

摘要

If he could start with a clean slate, Cisco's Rick Sanford says he would design a global communications system that would use Internet Protocol (IP) to seamlessly network communications systems from the ground to geostationary orbit — and beyond. He is the first to admit there is no clean slate, but Sanford, director of Cisco's Global Defense and Space group, and his company have a vision for the way commercial and military satellite systems could look in 15 years.