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Re:NASA Laser Communication System Sets Record with Transmis... by throwaway9101 on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @10:44AM (#6599028)
Or FEC, and optionally reliable re-transmission. TCP won't work well due to the huge latencies involved.
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Re:NASA Laser Communication System Sets Record with Transmis... by kordless on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @11:19AM (#6599239)
TCP can work decently with high latency, it just needs bigger buffers and to be tuned for the delay. FEC is awesome.
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