Intel stretches wifi over long distance
MIT Technology Review writes about Intel’s Rural Connectivity Platform (RCP):
“Intel has announced plans to sell a specialized Wi-Fi platform later this year that can send data from a city to outlying rural areas tens of miles away, connecting sparsely populated villages to the Internet.”
“The point-to-point technology will require two nodes, which could provide “full back-end infrastructure” for less than US$1,000. One node is usually installed at the edge of an urban area, wired to a local-area network cable Using a directional antenna, the device shoots data to a receiving antenna as far as 60 miles away. Once a node is installed in a village, the connection can be dispersed using standard cables and wireless routers.”
Read on at technologyreview.com.
Great news for rural areas in Australia and around the world.