Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Google "Launches Balloons for Internet Publishing in Poor and Remote Areas"


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Company intends to "Google" next year to launch the first balloons to deliver broadband Internet to remote areas and poor in the world. 

The company "Google" over the years to develop the project "Project Loon" which requires users to provide the Internet by balloons. Preparations are under way for the project in the laboratory of "Google X", who is also designing smart glasses and car without a driver.


The director of "Project Loon" Astro Teller The project aims to create a network of master station distributes the Internet through a local distributor and network devices, installed in the balloons, and antennas erected in the homes of users.


He added that the balloons would be suspended at an altitude of 20 km without hampering flights of aircraft.


And one balloon can deploy the Internet in the area with a diameter of 40 kilometers.
The company has tested the new technology in New Zealand, Brazil and some American states, and then announced that it reached a speed of 22 MB per second for the transfer of information to the ground antennas and 5 MB for the transfer of information to smart phones.


According to the information available at the "International Federation of transportation after 
all," the 60% ​​of the inhabitants of the earth (about 4 billion people) are still deprived by 2015 from the Internet.

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