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Instead of using balloons or drones, Alphabet/Google X plans to create a backbone of fixed boxes that communicate using lasers in order to deliver Internet access in Andhra Pradesh. Users would connect to the end points wirelessly:
Alphabet's X Lab has cooked up yet another Internet connectivity scheme, according to a report from Reuters. Past efforts have involved floating Internet balloons and laying lots of fiber optic cable, but this Internet delivery system sends data over laser beams! This isn't an experimental system like Project Loon; India's Andhra Pradesh state government has signed an agreement with Alphabet to bring the technology to millions of people starting next year.
[...] Alphabet's rollout in India will involve fitting "2,000 boxes installed as far as 20 kilometers (12 miles) apart on posts and roofs" according to the report. The optical system is expected to hit 20 Gbit/s from box to box and would serve as a backbone, replacing more expensive technologies like fiber optics. The final connection to users would happen over Wi-Fi or cellular.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @06:55AM (3 children)
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Monday December 18 2017, @07:37AM
The White House is a dump. We have a very old record player. Does anyone remember records? You bump the needle a little, you scratch the record. And you go to play it, you can hear the scratch. Tick, tick, tick! Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick! It's not great, folks. Not great. But the CD, the Blu-Ray, maybe you scratch it a little. But when you go to play it, it plays fine. Like it's PERFECTO. Barron, he scratched a lot of our CDs and Blu-Rays. But he says, "father, it's OK." Because they play fine. They look like a DISASTER, they mostly play fine. Which he tells me is because they're full of cyber. A record player has very little cyber. But a CD or Blu-Ray player is full of it. The cyber takes out the scratches. So they look & sound amazing!
Imagine we had that for our Internet, imagine there was cyber to take out the parts that have problems. ISIS, the alt-left, Black Identity Extremists, and many more. Our Internet would look & sound perfect, like a CD or Blu-Ray! It's coming, folks.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Monday December 18 2017, @07:43AM (1 child)
Three more words: Avalanche Photo Diode (APD) - sensitivity below -30dBm (-40 at low rates)
Three additional words: TCP retransmits, Patience.
Last two words: beam focus
Still, a Gig at 20km ain't beginner stuff. I'm sure people who had nothing will take at least ten minutes to learn to complain when it drops out.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2017, @02:15PM
They can complain on the web form