{"id":28153,"date":"2016-07-21T08:46:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/facebook-plans-to-beam-fast-internet-to-remote-areas-using-lasers"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:13:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:13:05","slug":"facebook-plans-to-beam-fast-internet-to-remote-areas-using-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/facebook-plans-to-beam-fast-internet-to-remote-areas-using-lasers","title":{"rendered":"Facebook plans to beam fast Internet to remote areas using lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-plans-to-beam-fast-internet-to-remote-areas-using-lasers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far the system can be used to receive signals carrying data at rates of up to 2.1 gigabits per second, though the team claims it could go faster if it were built to absorb infrared, rather than blue, light.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth pointing out that this isn\u2019t the first piece of hardware to emerge from the Connectivity Lab. Famously, it\u2019s been working on a solar-powered<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/539756\/meet-facebooks-stratospheric-internet-drone\/?utm_source=MIT+TR+Newsletters&utm_campaign=53782d9637-The_Download_July_20_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-53782d9637-&goal=0_997ed6f472-53782d9637-&mc_cid=53782d9637&mc_eid=%5BUNIQID%5D\"> drone to deliver Internet access.<\/a> That particular project is progressing slowly, though, so despite the fact that the team behind the new laser device plans to test it in a real-world setting, there\u2019s likely still much development ahead before it\u2019s used widely.<\/p>\n<p>The social network is, however, busy pursuing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/600875\/facebook-enters-the-race-to-build-5g-networks\/\">plenty of other projects<\/a> to take data to the sticks. Most notably, its Telecom Infra Project will use<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/601862\/facebook-has-a-plan-to-take-cellular-data-to-the-sticks\/?utm_source=MIT+TR+Newsletters&utm_campaign=53782d9637-The_Download_July_20_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_997ed6f472-53782d9637-&goal=0_997ed6f472-53782d9637-&mc_cid=53782d9637&mc_eid=%5BUNIQID%5D\"> open-source cellular networks<\/a> to achieve similar results. That way, you see, anyone will be able to sign up on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/601936\/facebook-plans-to-beam-internet-to-backwaters-with-lasers\/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/601936\/facebook-plans-to-...edium=post<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far the system can be used to receive signals carrying data at rates of up to 2.1 gigabits per second, though the team claims it could go faster if it were built to absorb infrared, rather than blue, light. It\u2019s worth pointing out that this isn\u2019t the first piece of hardware to emerge from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,418,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-internet","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50115,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28153\/revisions\/50115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}