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		throwaway9101 on Oct 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA Laser Communication System Sets Record with T... Or FEC, and optionally reliable re-transmission. TCP won't work well due to the huge latencies involved.

kordless on Oct 23, 2013 [–]

TCP can work decently with high latency, it just needs bigger buffers and to be tuned for the delay. FEC is awesome.

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