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Toulouse, France (SPX) May 31, 2005 CNES President, Yannick d'Escatha, and French Secretary of State for Land Planning, Frederic de Saint-Sernin, recently announced (May 20) the selection of four French municipalities to test out CNES's communications-enabled village concept. Using satellite technologies combined with terrestrial components like Wi-Fi (Wireless-Fidelity) and Power Line Carrier (PLC), this experiment will bring broadband communications services to these pilot villages, fulfilling CNES's mission to make the applications of space technologies available to all and contributing to bridge the digital divide. Each village will be equipped with a single satellite antenna providing a broadband Internet connection. Tradesmen, schools, professionals and private citizens in the village will then be able to connect to the Internet easily via a Wi-Fi antenna receiving the radio signal broadcast over the village. All located in south-western France, the four villages will be equipped with a single satellite antenna providing a broadband Internet connection. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links CNES SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Satellite-based Internet technologies
iPod Dominance A Mirage
Chicago (UPI) Jan 09, 2006Though Apple Computer has reported remarkable success with its iPod - sales rose by 250 percent during the last fiscal year - there is some competition coming this week for the developer of the world's most famous, legitimate music downloading network, experts tell United Press International's Networking. |
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