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Airborne Internet is a type of network that will use airplanes specially engineered for providing wireless communications networks. The Network will serve tens of thousands of subscribers within a super-metropolitan area, by offering ubiquitous access throughout the network’s signal "footprint". The aircrafts will carry the "hub" of a wireless network having a star topology. The aircrafts will fly in shifts to provide continuous service, 24 hour per day by 7 days per week, with an overall system reliability of 99.9% or greater. The airplane will fly above commercial airline traffic and adverse weather at altitudes higher than 51,000 and will provide a communications service footprint or "Cone of Commerce" of approximately 120 kilometers in diameter. Any subscriber within that region will be able to access the network’s ubiquitous multi-gigabit per second "bit cloud" upon demand. The networks will work with established ISPs who will provide their high capacity terminals for use by the network. These ISPs will have already their fibre optics setup, what the airborne internet will do is provide an infrastructure that can reach areas that don't have broadband cables & wires.
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| Author: Raghav 11 Oct 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 1 |
Ketan,
Can you give an example where airborne internet service is provided. It is a good article about airborne internet.
Raghav
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| Author: CONFIDENCE IS THE COMPANION OF SUCCESS 12 Oct 2008 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 2 |
onventional telephone lines, for example, are capable of transmitting only 56,000 bits (56k) per second under ideal conditions - too slow and often unreliable for large file transmission. Cable or direct subscription lines (DSL) lines can handle up to 100 million bits per second but the service is not widely available; setting up the infrastructure for a land-based broadband network with universal access requires enormous investments in time, money and resources.
Satellite-based Internet provides a way around the 'wired' problem - since data is sent over the air, there are no physical limitations on the amount of data that can be transmitted. The only problem with satellite Internet is a perceivable 'time lag' involved in transmitting data to and from satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above the earth. A second issue is the cost involved in sending an internet-capable satellite out of the earth's atmosphere.
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