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Drones Get Ready To Provide Internet Access

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Many places around the world do not have access to the Internet. Such places do not enjoy the same opportunities as that of internet-enabled areas. The infrastructure required to implement and maintain internet services may be beyond their reach.

Recently, Facebook made the headlines, when it announced its Drone Program to the world. The various utilities to which drones have been put to are numerous. But, imaginations have begun to run wild, when Facebook introduced its most ambitious project to date. Meet Aquila- A solar-powered drone weighing less than 1000 pounds, launched with the help of helium balloons. It will remain in the sky for 3 months without landing as it does not have any wheels. Aquila will use laser technology to beam data at the rate of 10s of gigabits per second to a base station on the ground, which will then be accessed by Internet Service Providers. These ISPs will then provide internet facilities to local users, who have till now have had no other means to access the internet.

The use of Aquila does cause a few raised eyebrows. One factor will be how it plans to land after its stipulated flying time without any sort of landing gear. Another is that users can expect slower internet speeds during cloudy and rainy days, as the Aquila is a solar powered drone.

Read Also –Bandwidth Capacity Between America & Britain Increases Thanks To CenturyLink

Bandwidth Capacity Between America & Britain Increases Thanks To CenturyLink

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The news that U.S.-based telecommunications company CenturyLink has merged its services with Irish-based Computer Networks Solutions Provider AquaComms Ltd. was met with a wide degree of appreciation, while it was being announced to the media on 20th of July 2016. The joint announcement heralded a new age of cooperation between the two transatlantic companies as they join hands in a remarkable venture to expand the Broadband capacity between The United States Of America and The United Kingdom.

Most Americans have already heard of and experienced the services rendered by CenturyLink, the American-owned telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. Glen F. Post has been at the helm of CenturyLink as its Chief Executive Officer since 1992, and has been witness to the astounding changes technology has brought to the world since then. CenturyLink prides itself on the ability to provide high-speed internet to people living across The United States.

It achieved yet another milestone when it was successful in activating two 100 GB links between the transatlantic cities of London and New York. The help and resources needed to undertake this huge venture was provided by a company that does its operations across the wide Atlantic Ocean-AquaComms Limited.

This Irish-based company specializing in sub-sea telecommunications has been providing a variety of networking solutions to IT companies, both locally and globally. Their core area of service is building subsea fiber optics. As such they are the proud owners of CeltixConnect (the most advanced sub-sea telecommunications network in Europe) and also AEConnect (one of the first under-sea transatlantic cables to be built).

Both these companies joined hands to provide users on both side of the Atlantic, faster and more reliable internet access. This is due to the fact that the London-to-NY internet pathway is the 2nd largest Internet traffic route in the whole wide world.

Read Also – The FCC Kick-Starts Its Initiatives!

The FCC Kick-Starts Its Initiatives!

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Lately we have been hearing a lot of news regarding a major change in the way American communication systems will operate in the coming months. Of these, the news coming from the FCC seems to be the most promising as well as exciting ones.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the official regulatory body in charge of overseeing both local and global communications, made by radio and T.V. stations, satellite and cable-networks. Its authority extends to all 50 states in The United States Of America, all of the territories as well as the Capital City of Washington D.C. As most Americans will be aware of, the FCC exercises its authority under the areas governing the laws and regulations concerning communication, as well as any and all technological innovation. As this is a vital aspect, the FCC’s functioning comes within the purview of the United States Congress.

The FCC has started kicking up a storm after announcing a wave of initiatives to be implemented before the summer holidays kicks in.

The most prominent and vital amongst these has been the setting-up of the new Emergency Alert System Test Reporting System- EAS. The FCC had directed that the stations deemed for this purpose, must submit themselves to an EAS Test Reporting System (ETRS), before they can actively participate in the initiative. In June 2015 the FCC had given the go-ahead to create the ETRS. All participating stations will have to get themselves registered with ETRS within the first sixty days after the EAS is officially launched. The FCC has, in this regard, facilitated an easier method of registration, whereby essential details like the EAS Participant’s facility ID number, transmitter locations, and the equipment and software version of installed EAS equipment will have to be uploaded.

It plans on initiating the nationwide EAS test, later this year.