What does FRAGNET mean in NASA

What is FRAGNET?

FRAGNET is an acronym for “Fragmented Network”, referring to a distributed networking approach that leverages fragmentation in order to improve scalability, reliability, security, and performance. By effectively breaking up data into smaller chunks (or fragments), networks are able to spread out processing requests across multiple nodes or computers on a network in parallel. This allows for improved scalability with minimal added latency and cost as more users or machines are added onto the system. Additionally, this improved modularity also allows applications more flexibility by allowing them to select which functions are run where on each node or computer.

In terms of security, FRAGNET offers an optimal solution thanks to its increased distribution across many nodes in the network. Since it reduces possible points of attack by making it much more difficult for hackers and malicious actors to target an entire system at once, networks leveraging fragmentation can be seen as much more secure than traditional models. This is especially true when considering threats like DDoS attacks which generally target every device within a network simultaneously in order to overwhelm its resources or trigger blackouts or outages. With FRAGNET however, these types of attacks become much less effective as they can only affect one fragment instead of taking out everything connected at once.

Finally when it comes to performance optimizations, FRAGNET excels by enabling networks to closely monitor usage patterns so that each fragment will continue functioning optimally over time regardless of changes in demand from users or other traffic spikes. By closely monitoring these stats on an ongoing basis fragments can be shifted around as needed ensuring peak performance levels are maintained throughout the system at all times without having bottlenecks form anywhere else in the process.