Big data centers may begin orbiting the Earth in coming years. But when it comes to keeping secrets safe from the long arm of the law and bad hands also.World leading companies are looking forward to have full secured and direct access to data from anywhere in the world. Its data centers on satellites that allows users to bypass the Internet and thousands of miles of fiber-bit from now to cross in order to put a circle around the world. Rather than simply transferring data, the satellite company also stored.Pitch goes like this: data centers and cables on the ground prone to piracy and national regulations include such things as access to government information. It can also slow down the data as it goes through the keys and one carrier to another, and all of those carriers need to get the money.
The cloud Constellation system, called SpaceBelt, to be a one-stop shop for data storage and transport, says CEO Scott Sobhani. You need to create a new international office? No need to call the carrier or the local operator's data center. Constellation plans to sell cloud the ability to SpaceBelt to cloud service providers that can offer such services.Security is another selling point. The data centers on the satellite to be safe from disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and tsunamis.
Hacks on the internet will not directly threaten the network SpaceBelt. Sobhani said the system will use the help of encryption devices, and only to communicate with satellites would require an intruder advanced ground station that can not just be bought off the shelf.Sobhani said the secret sauce Cloud Constellation is a technology that was developed to reduce the cost of all of this $ 4 billion to about $ 460 million. The network starts with eight or nine satellites and grow from there.
Together, the satellites linked to the formation of cloud computing that can do things like video transcode bit as well as storage. That each new generation of spacecraft to have a more modern gear inside a data center.
The company plans to store petabytes of data across a network of satellites. All devices must be certified for use in space, where they are more vulnerable to bombardment by cosmic particles that can cause errors. Said space analyst Tim Farrar of TMF Associates gear most computer in space today is more expensive and less advanced than what is on the ground.The analyst said storage Taneja Group Mike Matchett But the idea of petabytes in space is not as far-fetched as it may seem. Petabytes and can actually fit on a few shelves in the racks of data centers, and each generation of storage packs more data equipment in the same amount of space. This is likely to improve even before the first satellite building.However, Matchett users first thought to jump on SpaceBelt financial companies may be looking for a shorter delay to get messages all over the world.
Cloud says Constellation satellites can transfer information from low Earth orbit to the ground in the second quarter and from one point on Earth to another in less than a second. Any advantage that financiers can get competitors using fiber networks, which usually have a few seconds of the end-to-end latency, would help to make the deals more quickly informed.But if you do not put your data in space, do not expect to move free from the laws of the land.
Under the Outer Space Treaty of the United Nations in 1967, and the country that registered the satellite still has jurisdiction over it after it's in space, said Michael Listner, a lawyer and founder of space law and policy solutions. He said that if the satellite cloud towers' in the United States recording, for example, the company has to comply with the call of the states of the United States, notes and others.
Although the laws of physics are constant, those on the ground can not predict. Said Franz von der Dunk, a professor of space law at the University of Nebraska, for example, the United States has not passed any laws that directly address the data is stored in orbit, but in 1990 extended patents into space. "Looking towards the future, you can always fill this gap."