Facebook Developing Radio Wave Mesh To Connect Offline Areas (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @11:59AM from the don't-tell-the-government-of-india dept.

An anonymous reader writes: As part of its wider Internet.org initiative to deliver connectivity to poor and rural communities, Facebook is actively developing a new network technology which uses millimetre wave bands to transmit data. Facebook engineer Sanjai Kohli filed two patents which outlined a 'next generation' data system, which would make use of millimetre wave technology deployed as mesh networks. Kohli's patents detailed a type of centralised, cloud-based routing system which 'dynamically adjusts route and frequency channel assignments, transmit power, modulation, coding, and symbol rate to maximize network capacity and probability of packet delivery, rather than trying to maximize the capacity of any one link.'

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How nice of them by penguinoid · 2016-02-10 12:24 · Score: 2, Insightful

Facebook wants to spy on people who don't have internet access, too. Wouldn't want them to feel left out.

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