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04-13-2016, 11:12 PM
Facebook Terragraph wants to give cities better Internet
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Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) is working on bringing better Internet connectivity to the world in three major ways, and one of them is aiming to bring faster and more reliable connections to urban areas.
Called Terragraph, the system is an antenna-based Wi-Fi delivery system designed for urban connectivity. It was an**unced at Facebook's F8 developers conference (http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/facebook-10-year-plan/) Wednesday.
SEE ALSO: Facebook just made VR selfie sticks a thing (http://mashable.com/2016/04/13/facebook-vr-selfie-stick/)
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A slide from Facebook's F8 developers conference showing how Terragraph can outfit common urban features.
Image: Facebook
Terragraph can outfit street lights, traffic signals and other city infrastructure with antennas capable of delivering transmission rates up to 7Gbps (gigabits per second) via the WiGig standard (http://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wigig-certified) — much faster than today's 4G/LTE mobile connections. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/13/facebook-terragraph/)
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Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) is working on bringing better Internet connectivity to the world in three major ways, and one of them is aiming to bring faster and more reliable connections to urban areas.
Called Terragraph, the system is an antenna-based Wi-Fi delivery system designed for urban connectivity. It was an**unced at Facebook's F8 developers conference (http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/facebook-10-year-plan/) Wednesday.
SEE ALSO: Facebook just made VR selfie sticks a thing (http://mashable.com/2016/04/13/facebook-vr-selfie-stick/)
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A slide from Facebook's F8 developers conference showing how Terragraph can outfit common urban features.
Image: Facebook
Terragraph can outfit street lights, traffic signals and other city infrastructure with antennas capable of delivering transmission rates up to 7Gbps (gigabits per second) via the WiGig standard (http://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wigig-certified) — much faster than today's 4G/LTE mobile connections. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/13/facebook-terragraph/)
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