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Commercial Implementations
Disclaimer:
The following companies have declared that they offer commercial implementation of SCPS. However, the SCPS standardization activity makes no assertion about the accuracy of such claims, nor does it endorse any product.
SCPS PRODUCTS (in alphabetical order, updated 4/2009)
Avtec SCPS Gateway
Citrix Systems
Comtech TurboIP
Cryptek DiamondSat
Expand Networks Virtual Accelerator
Global Protocols SkipWare
LTI DataComm Mini Accelerator
NetAcquire Server
Packeteer Sky-X Accelerator
XipLink
Related Links
Commercial spinoff of SCPS:
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2004/ct_1.html
Digital Video Broadcasting-Return Channel Service (DVB-RCS) applications:
http://satlabs.org/pdf/sl_261_I-PEP_Specification_Issue_1.0_.pdf
http://telecom.esa.int/telecom/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=9647
MILSATCOM Standardized Tactical Entry Point (STEP)/Teleport sites:
Milsat Magazine - The Future of Satellite Acceleration (10/2007)
JPL:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems:
http://www.ccsds.org
SCPS Interest Group Mailing List:
To Subscribe:
http://mailman.ccsds.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sis-scps-interest
List-Archive:
http://mailman.ccsds.org/pipermail/sis-scps-interest/
New Research Related to SCPS
While the SCPS protocol suite enables terrestrial networks to extend into cislunar space, extending the internet to reach other planets requires new techniques. In 1998, DARPA funded the JPL/MITRE/SPARTA SCPS team to explore how an Interplanetary Internet might be designed. Dr. Vint Cerf joined the team, and a number of new concepts were explored.
The primary challenge was in dealing with light-time delays to other planets - minutes or even hours could elapse between a signal and its acknowledgement. It soon became evident that if one could deal with minutes or hours of delay caused by interplanetary distances, the same techniques could be equally useful for dealing with delays caused by disconnection or other comm link disruption.
In recent years, this work has been generalized and brought into the Internet Research Task Force as a Working Group on Delay (or Disruption) Tolerant Networking. For further information see:
http://www.dtnrg.org
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