Intel's rural connectivity application

Russ Steele

I found this on C/Net:

Intel's rural connectivity platform We wrote about this a year ago. Now it's almost ready for roll-out sometime this fall. It's a low-cost way of providing roughly 10 megabits-per-second connectivity to remote areas. The RCP needs a clear line of sight to work, but when set up without obstructions, Intel says the wireless long-distance nodes can connect every 60 miles. (I was told that one test offered up 4 megabit speeds up to 100 miles away.) Intel says it tweaked the Media Access Control protocol with a TDMA modification. The hardware is comprised of a small box which includes a single computer board, a lower power processor, a compact flash card for storage, and mini PCI wireless cards.

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