[HN Gopher] US Navy successfully connects aircraft carrier to th...
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US Navy successfully connects aircraft carrier to the cloud
Author : belter
Score : 6 points
Date : 2024-06-18 22:03 UTC (58 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
| cyberax wrote:
| Aircraft-Carrier-as-A-Service. Looking towards that.
| thelittlenag wrote:
| The upsell on the pricing is ridiculous...
| doubled112 wrote:
| But will it only bill me for the minutes I use it?
|
| Oracle will bill me for the whole ocean, I'm sure. The
| aircraft carrier _might_ stop there.
| toast0 wrote:
| I thought I once got an email from Hurricane Electric about a
| Carrier Networking event on the USS Hornet, although I can only
| find references for a customer appreciation event. [1]
|
| [1] https://forums.he.net/index.php?topic=1777.0
| tristanb wrote:
| "The connectivity has been enabled by Proliferated Low Earth
| Orbit (P-LEO) satellite services - constellations of satellite
| services that form mesh networks via optical links." - AKA
| Starlink. In Musk, we trust, I guess. (I don't).
| psunavy03 wrote:
| Just because he acts like a total tool does not arbitrarily
| make SpaceX not a viable defense contractor. Why can people not
| separate Musk the (very abrasive) person from his companies?
| throwup238 wrote:
| And for the first time in 15 years the blaster worm found a new
| computer system to infect...
|
| _> missile defense must now restart because the Remote Procedure
| Call (RPC) Service terminated unexpectedly._
| ungreased0675 wrote:
| Sounds like they installed a Starlink/Starshield antenna and can
| get emails now.
| sillywalk wrote:
| Apparently the F-35 logistics systems ALIS/ODIN are "in the
| cloud".
| riffic wrote:
| Nuclear submarines have Class C networks (/24, citing Bill
| Cheswick's last talk at the socal linux expo) in case anyone was
| curious.
|
| I assume aircraft carriers have a bigger footprint.
| sam_goody wrote:
| > The connectivity has been enabled by Proliferated Low Earth
| Orbit (P-LEO) satellite services
|
| Does this mean Starlink, or are there other competitors in this
| space (a quick web search refers to many other companies that
| have bid on contracts, but no details to who is actually the
| provider)?
|
| Also, I didn't follow what exactly does Oracle have to do with
| this - they are hardly the only cloud provider, and not even the
| one with the most government contracts?
| ordu wrote:
| "The infrastructure has been designed to be able to use a
| variety of connectivity mechanisms, including the military's
| SATCOM, and Starlink."
| Jtsummers wrote:
| Per the article, Starlink and some military SATCOM systems.
| It's apparently not tied to a specific satellite family (which
| is a good thing).
| w0z_ wrote:
| China's satellites (Jilin-1, etc.) can essentially track things
| across the world in seconds versus minutes (i.e. it can follow a
| plane, or car on the street in real-time). So I'm guessing "radio
| silence" does not affect much locational opsec at this point.
| EthicalSimilar wrote:
| It's pretty crazy the technology that's out there that we'll
| never see / experience without working some high-level gov job.
| jefurii wrote:
| [delayed]
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