The Project Loon Google has completed a year of testing, during which balloons are used to provide wireless Internet in any part of the world, without the appropriate infrastructure.
Although the Google remains sparing in its announcements related to the Project Loon, however, the head of the program, in an interview with Wired Magazine, clarified that the goal remains to be used by real people and not to remain an experimental program.
"On their birthday two years of Loon I hope, instead of experiments, we now have a permanent infrastructure to manage the balloons," Astro Teller, head of Google's X domain, told Wired.
The next goal of the company is to send more air balloons to the air for longer periods of time. According to Wired, there are currently available 100 balloons that remain in the air for 100 days, each. The goal is to quadruple these items by creating a 300-400 fleet of balloons.
At the same time, Google has also improved the technological ones possibilities of the balloons he uses, adding technology support LTE, other than the original one Wi-Fi. This translates to multiple simultaneous connections and data rates of up to 22MB per second, ground antenna or 5MB per second when the receiver is a smartphone.
Beyond her goal supply Internet in areas that do not yet have the appropriate infrastructure, Google is reportedly planning to use the Loon program for purely commercial purposes as well. For example, according to the Verge, balloons could be used to coverage of gaps in networks of companies in the United States, or because of the use of LTE, could extend the scope of roaming services to telecommunications providers.
Although the program is not considered technically perfect, Google remains optimistic that the key goals will be achieved. "We have crossed the point where the chances are more than 50% for the design to take place," Mike Cassidy, program director, told Wired. Google X.
It is worth noting that Project Loon is not the only similar program in progress by the American company. Already Google has acquired it Titan Aerospace Logistics, a drone manufacturing company, while according to Wall Street Journal, spends from one to three billion dollars on the launch a total of 180 satellites which will also offer access to the Internet in inaccessible areas of the planet.
Source: naftemporiki.gr
