Resumen
The article focuses on Teleportation, also known as matter transmission (MT). Early studies suggested that physical matter could be teleported between disparate spatial locations through mechanisms such as enhanced quantum probability displacement, matter-energy scrambling or artificial wormholes. During this period, a major teleportation system risk factor relating to portal environmental controls was delineated. The enormous amounts of data involved with MT have always made the availability and cost of transmission bandwidth a severe limiting factor. But super-capacity single and multimode fiber systems, the presence of higher speed routers and other developments, have rendered these limitations nearly obsolete. There are still serious concerns, of course. It is now assumed that Internet-based TCP/IP protocols will be used for most MT applications, protests of the X.400 Teleportation Study Committee notwithstanding. Packet fragmentation can seriously degrade MT performance parameters and UDP protocols are not recommended except where robust error correction and retransmission processes are in place.