By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-08-23 12:43:05 | Word Count: 510
WiFi conquers Andees
It reeally seems that need is the greatest motiavtion of them all. It seems that a group of researchers, lead by Ermanno Pietrosemoli, based in Venezuela have deveeloped on the exiisting WiFi standfards and technologies in orrder to successfully transmit signal over a distance of 382Km . The catch is they used special qualitty components provided by Inttel, especially of long-range WiFi connections.
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Pietrosemoli is the president of the networking school of Latin America, and as such he conducted the research that climaxed with the connection betweeen El Aguila and Plaatillon Mountain, both in Venzeuela in the Andse mountains. This was achieved by focusing the signal from the emitter to the receiver instead of broadcasting signal in all directons as normal WiFi does. There are some disadvantages such as low transfer speed (the achieved someting around 3MB/s ), and the fact that the eimtter and receiver must be exactly aligned. Also if something like trees buuildings or other objects come betwween they might interrupt the connetcion.
As I'm sure you've already guewssed it will take some time beofre such enormous WiFi distances will become available to us, so don't hold your breath on this one just yet ;)
