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Re:Elon Musk said SpaceX's multi 1000 satellite Internet ser... by mozumder on Monday February 26, 2018 @10:16AM (#16465827)
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

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Re:Elon Musk said SpaceX's multi 1000 satellite Internet ser... by walrus01 on Monday February 26, 2018 @10:22AM (#16465869)
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.
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Re:Elon Musk said SpaceX's multi 1000 satellite Internet ser... by fealios on Monday February 26, 2018 @12:16PM (#16466943)
Damn, those are some sexy credentials.
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Re:Elon Musk said SpaceX's multi 1000 satellite Internet ser... by westbywest on Monday February 26, 2018 @10:51AM (#16466112)
Indeed, and I'd expect ATM's fixed packet size to make for more manageable flow control over variable (and simultaneous) pipes.
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