The CM had a backup capability to range the LM over its VHF voice links.
Besides affording backup capability, Montemorelos would provide a means of continuing operations in the event that San Saucillo was shut down by politics.
One major difference is that the United Nations plan will urgently set up "routes of return, with relay stations along the way as well as logistic backup capabilities in cooperation with the Iraqi authorities."
It is intended to make Windows Home Server more extensible, simpler to set up and use, and give it richer backup capabilities.
The Mobitex network is based on pager technology and has greater backup capabilities.
As for the enterprise, though, it has much more robust backup capabilities; redundant SAN arrays, multi-TB tape drives with robotic changers, etc.
Dr. Postel said he was conducting an experiment to demonstrate the network's backup capability.
The group is counting on a continuing explosion of consumer digital data of all types, including new generations of high-definition still and video cameras that will create demand for secure and private backup capabilities.
Since those regulations were put in place last spring, followed within a few months by the widespread blackout, interest in backup capabilities has again surged, brokers and developers say.
Development of the lunar launching stage, which had no backup capability, so must be extremely reliable and capable of automated checkout on the lunar surface, and capable of putting the crew into the correct orbit to return to Earth.