From Star Wars to Stargate Atlantis all of the Sci-Fi movies/tv serial has always painted a future where the mode of transportation is the uber cool teleportation device/warp gate etc. etc.
So lets have a look at the so called teleportation device and ponder a bit if our current technology can actually be used in it :P
Teleportation consists of 3 important steps,
1. Disassembling the subject into bits of information (packet formation),
2. Transporting the packets to the destination,
3. Reassembling of packets and reconstruction of the subject .
Looks simple but step 1 and 3 are still in infancy.
However step 2, is very similar to our current day data packet transfer from source to destination.
As a network engineer I am tempted to propose the use of UDP or TCP as the underlying protocol for the packet transfer, and then I am horrified with the thought what might happen if we use UDP...
illustrated below
TCP analysis for the next time :)
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