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Title    Alphabet to Deliver Internet Access in India Using Laser Beams
Date    Monday December 18 2017, @04:32AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the cue-the-monsoon-and-shark-comments dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/12/18/0045229

takyon writes:

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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Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "create a backbone of fixed boxes that communicate using lasers" - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/alphabet-wants-to-deliver-internet-access-via-laser-beams/
  3. "Andhra Pradesh" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh
  4. "Reuters" - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-india/alphabets-x-sells-new-wireless-internet-tech-to-indian-state-idUSKBN1E83BQ
  5. "floating Internet balloons" - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/how-google-is-using-balloons-to-extend-cellular-service-in-puerto-rico/
  6. "lots of fiber optic cable" - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/google-fiber-now-sells-55-per-month-gigabit-internet-in-one-city/
  7. "Google May Test Balloon Internet Service Over the United States" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/11/27/1414252
  8. "Google Kills Off Titan Internet Drone "Moonshot"" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/01/13/038206
  9. "Alphabet Deploys Project Loon Balloons to Puerto Rico" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/10/21/2054213
  10. "Balloons Provide Internet Service to 100,000 People in Puerto Rico" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/11/10/164221
  11. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=23862

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