Since 2013, Facebook Connectivity has helped bring more than 500M people online to a faster internet and now aims to enable affordable, high-quality connectivity for the next billion people with emerging technologies.
Commenting on the new connectivity technologies, Dan Rabinovitsj, VP of Facebook Connectivity said, “ We have seen that economies flourish when there is widely accessible internet for individuals and businesses. In Nigeria, increased broadband connectivity resulted in a 7.8 percent increase in the likelihood of employment for people in areas connected to fiber optic cables. While increased connectivity led to a 19 percent increase in GDP per capita in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Facebook Connectivity works with partners to develop new technologies for access to high speed internet. Today we’re sharing the latest developments on some of these connectivity technologies, which aim to deliver major improvements in internet capacity across the world by sea, land, and air.”
Some of Facebook’s new connectivity
technologies include:
Investment
in improving subsea fiber optic cables
and expanding their reach to better connect more people. Facebook and its
partners recently launched the first-ever transatlantic, 24 fiber pair subsea
cable system which will connect Europe to the U.S. This new cable provides 200
times more capacity than the transatlantic cables of the 2000s and builds on
Facebook’s recent news about 2Africa
Pearls, the subsea cable which connects Africa, Asia, and Europe and makes
the 2Africa cable system the longest in the world, with a capacity to provide
connectivity for up to 3 billion people.
Using
robotics for faster fibe deployment.
We are making fiber deployment significantly more economical through Bombyx, a
robot that can climb the medium voltage power lines that already exist in so
much of the world, and install fiber onto them. Today, Bombyx is lighter,
faster, and more agile than our first generation design. We are also making
Bombyx fully autonomous, using machine vision sensors to better navigate around
obstacles. Bombyx aims to make the single biggest drop in the cost of
terrestrial fiber deployment by combining innovations in the fields of robotics
and fiber-optic cable design to increase the amount of terrestrial fiber on
land — without the expense of trenching
to lay fiber underground.
Terragraph: Fiber connections through the air-
Terragraph, a wireless solution which beams fiber-like connectivity through the
air, has already brought high-speed internet to more than 6,500 homes in
Anchorage, Alaska and deployment has started in Perth, Australia. We license
Terragraph for free to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). To date, these
partners have shipped more than 30,000 Terragraph units to more than 100
service providers and system integrators around the world.
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