Cisco Router in Orbit Puts More "Wide" into WAN

Cisco Router in Orbit Puts More "Wide" into WAN

"If you are a router company with as much as 80% market share and a $3.2 billion R&D budget to play with, why not bolt a router to a rocket and shoot it into orbit?

This is what a group of engineers at Cisco did as part of its Cisco Low Earth Orbit (CLEO) project, which recently completed its second year orbiting Earth. CLEO is a modified version of Cisco's Mobile Access Router, typically used to connect computer equipment in police cars, ambulances, airplanes and other vehicles to an IP network. "