Hi all,
Following on from this report I thought I’d put a few recent-ish media stories so those interested can get some idea of what’s being said out there…
Firstly in regards the relationship between ‘mouse’ Pentanet and the ‘megasaurus’ Meta (nee Facebook) about a month back on October 8, Chris Griffith at The Australian wrote;
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/bu...p/news-story/cc5e47f25845ef16a16e8b014d49c587
Perth firm Pentanet readies fast internet with Facebook’s help
Pentanet founder and managing director Stephen Cornish with a Facebook Terragraph unit.
- CHRIS GRIFFITH
TECHNOLOGY REPORTER
- 12:00AM OCTOBER 8, 2021
Facebook is taking baby steps in the rollout of internet in Australia through a Perth company.
Pentanet is converting its current fixed wireless internet system in Perth to use Facebook developed “Terragraph” wireless units that offer one gigabit speeds across the air. The company says it will think about going national with the partnership.
Pentanet began as a fledgling internet service provider in 2017, employing a handful of staff. This year it raised $40m after listing in January and employs 80 people.
Founder and managing director Stephen Cornish said he’d been talking to Facebook “for years” about using its technology.
The company’s network originally serviced 30 to 40 customers in poorly connected areas of Perth.
Its current technology offers up to 120 megabits per second internet to more than 12,500 customers.
With Facebook’s Terragraph it will be 1000 megabits per second, or one gigabit.
The investment will see Pentanet offer Facebook partnered fixed wireless internet across the city. He said Pentanet is having to install “thousands” of Terragraph units across the city due to their short range, about 250 metres.
In April Pentanet secured a 15-year licence for high-band 5G spectrum covering the greater Perth area. Mr Cornish said the new network was currently under construction. The rollout with Facebook developed technology and supplier Cambium Networks would see its customer base increase from around 9000 to up to 200,000.
The superfast internet also will help Pentanet with a special project – providing cloud gaming. Mr Cornish said the company was the exclusive Australian provider of Nvidia GeForce Now, a rival to Microsoft X Cloud offered in Australia through Telstra. Terragraph sits perfectly with that.
“Facebook has been developing all these new cutting edge technologies for last mile and fibre networks and we’re adopting some of that technology and implementing it into the Australian market because there’s been a hole left with our telecommunications.”
He said Pentanet planned to offer the cheapest gigabit internet plans in the market.
Mr Cornish said the Perth rollout would give Pentanet a blueprint for making its network based on Facebook Terragraph units available nationally.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s grand plan to make the internet available to billions has been a long time coming. He first argued it in 2013, saying then it would be possible in five to 10 years.
Almost a decade on, Facebook says it is building 150,000km of subsea internet cables with partners, much of it centred on Africa and connecting it to Europe and Asia.
The Facebook rollout, detailed in a new blogpost, will include a new 24 fibre-pair undersea internet cable linking the US and Europe that carries 500,000 gigabits of data per second.
The company this week also showed video of an updated version of its Bombyx fully autonomous robot that can wind internet-carrying fibre cable along medium voltage power lines.
Facebook engineers have worked on enabling Bombyx to climb over the power poles and continue cabling using machine vision sensors to help it navigate around obstacles.
Perth is one of two destinations highlighted by Facebook this week as destinations for its Terragraph fixed wireless units, the other being Anchorage, Alaska.
Facebook said its partners had shipped more than 30,000 Terragraph units to more than 100 service providers already.
This week Google also announced an investment of $US1bn to boost Africa’s internet access and start-up scene. Spread over five years, the investment includes funding for Google’s Equiano subsea cable, a major private infrastructure project also aimed at ramping up Africa’s high-speed connections.
What did Meta (nee FB) have to say about this the day before?
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/10/connectivity-technologies-for-the-next-billion-people/
Connectivity Technologies for the Next Billion People
October 7, 2021
As the internet becomes ever more pervasive in the way we live and work, the technologies used to bring people online have not kept pace. Even as per person data consumption increases by 20-30% every year, nearly half the world is being left behind — either lacking adequate access to the internet, or remaining completely unconnected.
- More than 300M people have access to a faster internet thanks to the work of Facebook Connectivity, and we’re developing new technologies to connect the next billion people.
- Today, we’re sharing the latest developments on these innovative technologies, which can be deployed across the world by sea, land and air to ensure equitable access to high-speed internet.
New technological breakthroughs are needed to solve this challenge and bring more people online to a faster, more reliable internet. Facebook Connectivity works with partners to develop these technologies and bring them to people across the world. Since 2013, Facebook Connectivity has accelerated access to a faster internet for more than 300M people around the world. Earlier this week, during an event called Inside the Lab, our engineers shared the latest developments on some of our connectivity technologies, which aim to improve internet capacity across the world by sea, land and air:
Bombyx wraps fiber around existing telephone wires, clearing obstacles and flipping as it needs to along its route.
- Subsea cables connect continents and are the backbone of the global internet. Our first-ever transatlantic subsea cable system will connect Europe to the U.S. This new cable provides 200X more internet capacity than the transatlantic cables of the 2000s. This investment builds on other recent subsea expansions, including 2Africa PEARLS which will be the longest subsea cable system in the world connecting Africa, Europe and Asia.
- To slash the time and cost required to roll out fiber-optic internet to communities, we’ve developed a robot called Bombyx that moves along power lines, wrapping them with fiber cable. Since we first unveiled Bombyx, it has become lighter, faster and more agile, and we believe it could have a radical effect on the economics of fiber deployment around the world.
- We’ve also developed Terragraph, a wireless technology that delivers internet at fiber speed over the air. This technology has already brought high-speed internet to more than 6,500 homes in Anchorage, Alaska, and deployment has also started in Perth, Australia, one of the most isolated capital cities in the world.
We’re proud to reach our milestone of bringing high-speed reliable internet to more than 300M people — but the work doesn’t stop there. Connecting the next billion will require many different approaches. And as people look for more immersive experiences in new virtual spaces like the metaverse, we need to increase access to a more reliable and affordable internet for everyone. We believe this work is fundamental for creating greater equity where everyone can benefit from the economic, education and social benefits of a digitally connected world.
Learn more about our connectivity technologies and developments.
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