Vizag To Soon Welcome A New Age Of Technology - High Speed Wireless Internet By Google X!

Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc’s X research division recently made an announcement that it would provide high-speed wireless Internet to millions of people in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The announcement spoke of AP state government buying Google X's newly developed Internet technology that would provide Internet without laying cables. X plans to have a small team based in Andhra Pradesh next year to help roll out the technology as well.

For this, Google X will set up its development centre in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, which will be its first development centre outside the US. The agreement is an outgrowth of X’s Project Loon, which many times has beamed cell phone service to Earth from a network of large balloons. The balloons link directly to smartphones but are meant for rural areas with a low population density. X is using Free Space Optical Communications (FSOC) to connect far-flung regions of the state. It involves using beams of light to deliver high-speed, high-capacity connectivity over long distances. The agreement, which comes into force next year, would see 2,000 boxes installed as far as 20 kilometres (12 miles) apart on posts and roofs to bring fast Internet connection to populated areas. The idea is to create a new backbone to supply service to cell phone towers and WiFi hotspots, endpoints that users would then access.

Also, X plans to deploy free space optical technology, which transmits data through light beams at up to 20 gigabits per second between the rooftop boxes. There would be enough bandwidth for thousands of users to connect to the Internet simultaneously through the same cellphone tower, as per X. Andhra Pradesh currently, as of December 2016, had nearly 15 Mn high-speed Internet subscribers and plans to add 12 Mn households by 2019. Google is leaving no stone unturned to provide Internet to bring the next set of Indian users online in the places where linking cell phone towers to a wired connection is expensive and difficult, besides its strategy to bring-in internet access in developing countries so as order to maintain the company's fast-growing businesses. Know more about Google X: