Recently, Google officially announced a new derivative project named aalyria. It is reported that Google has a technical team dedicated to developing software for high-speed communication networks from ground to space. The internal code of this team is Minkowski. Now it has been split into a company named Aalyria and inherited Google's high-altitude balloon Internet technology.
Previously, Google tried to use the high-altitude balloon project Loon to provide Internet for remote areas, but the project was officially closed last year because it failed to find a viable business model. Now aalyria has fully inherited the relevant technologies of Google's high-altitude balloon project and renamed it tightbeam. It is understood that the company will use laser and cloud technology to provide Internet for remote areas and restart the high-altitude balloon Internet project.
If you want to use laser and cloud technology to transmit data wirelessly, you need to overcome the interference of heat, rain, clouds and fog on the laser. The team of Aalyria said that they had made significant breakthroughs in these issues. It is understood that the LightBeam technology can analyze the impact of rain on the signal, then reverse them and make the signal smooth.
Tightbeam aims to achieve data transmission very similar to optical fiber, transmitting light beams from one point to another. It's just that it's transmitted through air rather than through physical connections, which obviously makes it more flexible, especially when it's transmitted over long distances. Aalyria said that it can send data at the speed of 1.6 trillion bits per second in hundreds of kilometers, which is about 1000 times faster than similar technologies currently used.
In addition, Aalyria also has a key business: cloud computing based software Spacetime. The initial role of Spacetime is to predict how the Loon balloons will move and maintain a close relationship between them. It can predict when the aircraft will lose its connection to a given satellite or ground station, and then direct the new signal to the aircraft without missing any beat. Now, its job is to predict when the tightbeam base station must disconnect from a moving object, such as an aircraft or a ship.
At present, Spacetime technology has been well tested in Google, but the LightBeam technology has not been verified in the real world. However, Aalyria said that Tightbeam can maintain the integrity of data in the atmosphere and weather, and provide connectivity where there is no supporting infrastructure. Google also said: "Tightbeam will fundamentally improve satellite communications, Wi Fi on aircraft and ships, and ubiquitous cellular network connectivity.
Source: OFweek
