Yesterday , Zuckerberg waxed poetic about the hereafter of world connectivity , and now solar day two of Facebook ’s F8 developer conference is give us more point . Two terrestrial based programs — no nifty drone ask — hope to technically leapfrog fibre with throughput speeds maxing out at a blazing 2.1Gbps .
The first — call Terragraph — practice nodes placed throughout dense urban country , whether perched on lite poles or traffic lights . They sort of look like speakers from a 50s movement - in :
These lymph gland utilise what ’s called WiGig , fundamentally a soup - up interlingual rendition of wifi that can handle a 7GHz transmission . They also operate on the 60GHz band . The trouble with these unlicensed high - oftenness bands ( most smartphones manoeuvre around 700MHz to 1.7GHz ) is they ca n’t journey very far or infiltrate obstruction , like buildings , very well . But , man , can they carry short ton and tons of data .
To divvy up with the limitation of the engineering , Facebook plans to site these node 200 - 250 meters aside . This closely crumple connection will then be able-bodied to airt signal around would - be obstacles , theoretically make for a clean joining . It ’s an ideanot too far removed from the one proposed by Starry , the weird descendant of the now defunct Aereo . However , Terragraph works like so :
But what if you ’re one of millions that do n’t live in a city ? That ’s where ARiES , Facebook ’s second raid into wireless infrastructure technology , come in . ARiES , which stands for Antenna Radio Integration for Efficiency , is like thetechnological midway serviceman between 4 G and 5 G , specifically built to make spectrum more effective and all - around better for rural areas .
retentive account poor , this validation - of - concept would make it possible to support 24 different equipment on the same banding of spectrum , basically making current 4 G connectivity much more efficient and more capable of handle data point loads .
By Facebook ’s idea , 97 percentage of the world lives less than 25 mile from a major city , and Facebook wants to use Terragraph and ARiES to accost the net needs of the many . Because plainly , more mass colligate to the net signify more people can practice Facebook . World mastery , here it come .
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