Facebook Connectivity Lab Touts Record-Setting High-Speed-Data Test
Facebook Connectivity Lab announced a record-setting successful test of its millimeter wave technology for providing high-speed data over long distances.
Facebook Connectivity Lab announced a record-setting successful test of its millimeter wave technology for providing high-speed data over long distances.
Facebook said in an email to SocialTimes that a test at its Southern California lab successfully beamed data at a rate of nearly 20 gigabits per second from a mountaintop in Malibu to a rooftop in Woodland Hills, 13 kilometers (eight miles) away.
The social network added that it used just 105 watts of power, roughly equivalent to what a single light bulb consumes, to provide enough data to stream nearly 1,000 ultra-high-definition videos simultaneously.
The next step? Facebook said it will start testing a link between the air and the ground using a modified Cessna airplane, with the ultimate goal of mounting the system on its Aquila solar-powered aircraft.
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