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Cisco made a call the other day ... the first ever VoIP call using a commercial satellite without any terrestrial infrastructure.
That would be zip on the ground equipment. For the first time.
It's a part of Cisco's new IRIS (Internet Routing in Space) technology which promises to route voice, data and video traffic between users over a single IP network technology which, Cisco says, "offers several enhancements over conventional satellite technology." Greater cost effectiveness is, of course, key among these as Cisco continues testing and upgrades with its IRIS router aboard Intelsat 14, which was launched a year ago.
Said Cisco of the project, "It's all part of an ambitious Cisco plan to transform satellite networks, growing a potentially massive new market by putting routers on the numerous communications satellites that orbit our planet, thus extending the Internet into space.•
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