Samsung, like Google and Facebook, also want to connect the world – Today

The idea of ​​the South Korean company is deplegar 5,000 low-cost small satellites into Earth orbit capable of providing a “zettabyte” of data per month, equivalent to 200 GB 5,000 million monthly users.

 

Google and Facebook pioneered the idea of ​​”connecting the world”. The “ Project Loon ‘Internet giant was born in 2013 with the aim of generating a wireless connection system with balloons . She is working on something like Mark Zuckerberg but with drones. Now, Samsung the same goal with the release of thousands of small satellites arises.

The internet is something still very limited. Although at first this idea can be somewhat shocking, just remember some data from different reports. Without going any further, in Spain, almost 7.5 million citizens have never gone online, according to the study “The digital divide in Spain”, while in the world, over 60% of the population has never been online network, as Internet.org, Facebook, detailed in its latest report.

All this has meant that large companies devise ways with which allow everyone to connect to the network. Samsung, including, as shown by a study published by Farooq Khan, president of the research area of ​​Samsung in America with the proposal “Internet Space.” The idea of ​​the South Korean company is deploying thousands of low-cost small satellites into Earth orbit capable of providing a “zettabyte” of data per month, equivalent to 200 GB monthly to 5,000 million users worldwide .

Farooq Khan recalled in the report that “the mobile data traffic continues to grow at an unprecedented rate.” More and more users connect to the Internet, listen to music, watch videos, chat … In other words, the demand for data is increasing.

ever-increasing mobile traffic

In this regard, it is recalled worldwide traffic IP (internet protocol) to reach by 2017 the outrageous amount of 1.4 “zetabytes” annually. That is, more than a billion “gigabytes.”

“In 2028 the global mobile traffic will cross the one zettabyte per month, equivalent to 200 GB per month for 5 billion users, “says Khan. For this reason, the technology giant South Korea suggests que4600 microsatellites could transmit a “zettabyte ‘monthly data.

The current technology deployment It makes it impossible to address this future scenario, so we can only rely on “satellite networks and other aircraft systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles” to meet the challenge.

The head of R & D of Samsung America estimated that the project is able to make the idea of ​​serving affordable internet to everyone thanks to the price “low cost” of microsatellites, which would orbit between 160 km and 2,000 km altitude.

Current projects

The document appears to be final and is open to discussion but about the idea that large companies work.

Do not forget that Facebook will begin this fall giant condrones tests. With the manufacture of Aquila, capable of flying up to 27 meters high, the company aims to bring internet Zuckerberg to the most remote and underdeveloped areas. Specifically, Facebook plans to expand the global network coverage to 10% of the world’s population has no access.

Google, meanwhile, It began with a pilot test Loon Project in June 2013, when 30 balloons were launched from the South Island of New Zealand and internet are transmitted to a small group.