Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and Facebook have made an announcement. It states that they have joint efforts to work towards delivering high-speed internet connectivity with Facebook’s Terragraph technology.

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This project is called the Terragraph Project. It has been in the works since Facebook first announced it at the company’s 2016 annual developer conference. It describes the project as a “multi-node wireless system focused on bringing high-speed internet connectivity to dense urban areas.”

Irvind Ghai, Vice President of Product Management at Qualcomm Atheros, said in a statement “Our collaboration with Facebook will bring advanced 11ad and pre-11ay technologies to market increasing broadband penetration and enabling operators to reduce their capex for last mile access. Terragraph cloud controller and TDMA architecture coupled with Qualcomm Technologies solution’s 10 Gbps link rate, low power consumption and early interference mitigation techniques will help make gigabit connectivity a reality.” The company intends to integrate its QCA6438 and QCA6428 family of pre-802.11ay chipsets with Terragraph.

The Terragraph technology leverages high-frequency radio waves. These waves help to speed up the networks where the population is very dense. Under the project, both the companies will bring in gigabit Wi-Fi operating at 60GHz wireless speeds.

Yael Maguire, vice president of connectivity at Facebook said “We’re excited to work with Qualcomm Technologies to advance the adoption of pre-802.11ay and 802.11ad 60GHz technologies and build a robust ecosystem of interoperable solutions based on Terragraph, With Terragraph, our goal is to enable people living in urban areas to access high-quality connectivity that can help create new opportunities and strengthen communities.”

Neither Facebook nor Qualcomm has said where the companies are planning to test this out. Most probably, it will be in a metropolitan area with many large buildings and structures. The project will place WiFi hotspots in certain regions will super-fast internet connectivity. As per the reports, the field tests will begin early or in the middle 2019, but it is still not confirmed when the Terragraph project will go live.

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