Zuckerberg wants to revive Facebook's reputation: this is how he intends to bring the Internet to all corners of the world

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The company has installed floating beacons to distribute electricity to repeaters on submarine cables. Facebook Connectivity

Facebook is working to bring the Internet to areas where fiber is not currently available in the world. According to the company, its plans include submarine cables, an installer robot moving along power lines and a wireless system that uses street furniture at high speeds.

The company manages these projects through Facebook connectivity, which has already provided a fast and secure connection to over 300 million people. Through this, they plan to equip another billion people with the Internet in the next decade.

Facebook Connectivity has been developing various solutions over the years to bring high-speed internet across land, air, and sea. This was reported by the Portal de Europa Press, which attended the company's press conference.

In addition, the company announced the Atlantic submarine cabling system, which connects Europe with the United States with 24 pairs of fiber. To this day, most transoceanic submarine cables consist of 2 and 8 pairs of fibers.

With this new system, Portaltic reports that "the capacity of Atlantic cables has multiplied by 200 since the turn of the century". That is, submarine cables with 24 pairs of fibers provide a capacity of half a petabit (half a million gigabits) per second.

2 Africa Project

Facebook Connectivity Another of the plans in mind is to connect Africa, Asia, and Europe with new aluminum conductors, with which they want to replace existing copper conductors. In this way, they plan to reduce the construction costs of their cables.

The company works to connect Europe, Asia, and Africa with submarine cables.

On the other hand, company developers created floating beacons to distribute electricity from water to repeaters. This method helps to solve the problem of making very long electrical cables.

Similarly, Portaltic ensures that they provide 10 times more efficiency combined with the action of wave energy converters and solar panels.

Substitute for earth fiber

Facebook claims that a meter of fiber currently costs only a few cents, while its complete installation costs tens and hundreds of euros. To cut costs, the company is working on a robot called Bombyx.

Facebook Connectivity

This machine is capable of moving through medium voltage power lines and can lay fiber cables. Therefore, Facebook connectivity prevents the fiber from digging and spreading underground.

The Bombyx weighs 4.5 kilograms and thanks to its stabilization system it can climb vertically on a power line and cross in 4 minutes. In fact, this robot can turn and balance despite obstacles to wind the fiber in power lines.

On the other hand, Facebook has made connectivity fiber cables, which are lighter in weight and better resistant to high temperatures, so that they can withstand their installation in medium voltage cables.

Air connection through urban furniture

The company will start using a technology called terragraph to take advantage of transmitters installed on ceilings and street furniture and to create a distribution network of fast and reliable connectivity.

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This connection is already implemented in Anchorage (Alaska) and Perth (Australia) and offers fiber-like features without resorting to cables.

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