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No data service can survive every possible
disaster, but Tachyon.net comes close. Even in a total
blackout (no power, no phones, no data lines), Tachyon's
satellite links keep humming to branch offices, partners,
and the Internet. Now that's disaster recovery.
Tachyon uses a 98cm industrial satellite dish and
an all-in-one receiver, transmitter, router, and Web cache
unit called a Tachyon Access Point (TAP), a desktop PC-sized
box that sits indoors, to bounce data off a satellite
orbiting thousands of miles above. It takes about half a
second for data to make the round trip between the ground
and the satellite. Granted, compared to landline circuit
latency of 20 milliseconds or less, 500 milliseconds may
seem like an eternity. But Tachyon's reliability, security,
and convenience are a winning combination. |
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