NASA Is Cutting Edge

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October 10th, 2007

It seems NASA is placing itself among the leaders in broadband deployment. According to a very credible source, the agency is scheduled to install a brand new wireless Internet access network -- they call it "Wi-Fi" -- by 2017.
According to agency officials, accessing the Internet has been an ongoing struggle for NASA. Still relying on a single dial-up modem, employees nevertheless continue to get disconnected from the Internet whenever the Johnson Space Center receives an incoming call or someone picks up the phone to dial out. In 2005, NASA attempted to upgrade from dial-up to DSL, but the program was aborted when engineers were unable to get the Ethernet hub to function.
Next thing you know they'll be putting someone on the moon.

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