Beyond that, there is entirely no substance here - unless he wants to release details, this is non-news, just more business fluff - "Ours will be even better. It'll be huge. The best. Others, so sad"

"And if its hacked, we'll just patch the firmware. So easy."

I'd be bragging about my satellite fleet, too. The guy's only human.

Do you have a source for this?

Do you have small hands?

The Media will pick it up, start to explain to average Joe that iPv6 is the latest tech, currently still only running x% of Internet. But Elon has something even better then IPv6, using encryption and Peer to Peer design!

I was going to say Stocks going up, then I realize SpaceX is not public yet.

I wonder if the Internet Services part will be sold to Telsa?

He specifically mentions a much lower protocol overhead, implying a translation of some sort, as opposed to just encapsulation. As an ex-programmer, is unlikely Musk would make that confusion.

It's most likely a version of the ATM protocol[1]. Point-to-point, small packets, etc.. We used a version of that when I was working on the Iridium project.

Likely the exact same thing here, especially if they hired the same engineers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode

You worked on the original Iridium satellite architecture? I am sure a lot of people here may not know how fully groundbreaking it was. Considering it is now 20-year-old tech the satellite-to-satellite Ka-band trunk links are an amazing technical achievement. That and the voice codec they came up with to make humans intelligible at 2400bps.

Damn, those are some sexy credentials.

Indeed, and I'd expect ATM's fixed packet size to make for more manageable flow control over variable (and simultaneous) pipes.

Are you ever an ex-programmer? I would say, once a programmer, always a programmer.

I refer to myself as a recovering software engineer/programmer. Never really out of the addiction, but not in the weeds anymore.

Not to mention that "IP" may indicate not just Internet Protocol. My first reaction after reading the title was: "Wow! A satellite service using no patented hardware/software! Can't wait to find the project on Github!".