CLEO - Cisco router in Low Earth Orbit, is an

Internet router A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the traffic directing functions between networks and on the global Internet. Data sent through a network, such as a web page or email, is ...

from

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that was integrated into the UK-DMC

Disaster Monitoring Constellation The Disaster Monitoring Constellation for International Imaging (DMCii) or just Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) consists of a number of remote sensing satellites constructed by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and operated for the A ...

satellite built by

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(SSTL) as a secondary experimental

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, and launched into space with the satellite from

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on 27 September 2003. CLEO and the UK-DMC satellite were tested over five years to show the feasibility of extending the Internet to orbit, using both the

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and

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. CLEO was configured by NASA's

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to be used with Virtual Mission Operations Center (VMOC) software from

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as part of a large internetworking exercise from the field at

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in June 2004.P. Hochmuth
Cisco in Space
Network World, 31 October 2005.W. Ivancic, ''et al.''

, NASA Technical Memorandum TM-2005-213556, May 2005. On 29 March 2007, CLEO was configured for and tested on

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and

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use, making this the first use of IPv6 on board a satellite in orbit. The use of CLEO builds on and validates the approach to use of the

articulated by Keith Hogie with

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and first demonstrated as part of the Operating Missions as Nodes on the Internet (OMNI)Operating Missions as Nodes on the Internet
{{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051227222528/http://ipinspace.gsfc.nasa.gov/ , date=2005-12-27 effort on board the

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built by SSTL.L. Wood, ''et al.''
Using Internet nodes and routers onboard satellites
special issue on Space Networks, International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, volume 25 issue 2, pp. 195-216, March/April 2007K. Hogie, ''et al.''
Using standard Internet Protocols and applications in space
Computer Networks, special issue on Interplanetary Internet, vol. 47 no. 5, pp. 603-650, April 2005K. Hogie, ''et al.''
Putting more Internet nodes in space
CSC World, Computer Sciences Corporation, pp. 21-23, April/June 2006. CLEO was followed by the IRIS router on a geostationary

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satellite.

References

External links

Papers, presentations and articles on CLEO
* ttp://www.cisco.com/go/space Cisco Systems Global Defense, Space and Security group Cisco Systems Satellite Internet access Spacecraft instruments Cisco products

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