Sat links induce roughly 250ms of latency, you have to tweak TCP Windows so you can saturate the link as much as you can, but besides that Sat links are rather common. On Mar 4, 2016 7:26 AM, "Jan" <cne...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
> Thanks for the input. > The IoT application could have a http ingestion receiver to funnel data > into Kafka. However, I am thinking about Kafka's ability to be able to > injest traffic directly from IoT devices. > Does anyone have any recommendations while using Kafka Connect between > producer & consumer sides over Satellite links. Does the Satellite > link really make any difference v/s a slow Internet link ? > Input/ suggestions would be much appreciated. > ThanksJan > > > On Thursday, March 3, 2016 1:16 AM, Christian Csar <christ...@csar.us> > wrote: > > > I would not do that. I admit I may be a bit biased due to working for > Buddy Platform (IoT backend stuff including telemetry collection), but > you want to send the data via some protocol (HTTP? MQTT? COAP?) to the > central hub and then have those servers put the data into Kafka. Now > if you want to use Kafka there are the various HTTP front ends that > will basically put the data into Kafka for you without the client > needing to deal with the partition management part. But putting data > into Kafka directly really seems like a bad idea even if it's a large > number of messages per second per node, even if the security parts > work out for you. > > Christian > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Jan <cne...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > > Hi folks; > > does anyone know of Kafka's ability to work over Satellite links. We > have a IoT Telemetry application that uses Satellite communication to send > data from remote sites to a Central hub. > > Any help/ input/ links/ gotchas would be much appreciated. > > Regards,Jan > > >
