2010 July 25 2010
Six months after the astronaut TJ Creamer for the first time could send a Twitter message directly from the International Space Station, has successfully tested the first space-based router capable of transferring large amounts of data at high speed.
Designed by Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, the router IRIS (Internet Routing in Space) differs from other satellite communications technologies that can transfer a huge amount of information to multiple receivers located on earth in one step , eliminating the need to pass through tele-port and greatly increasing the download speed.
