Liam Tung
| September 17, 2021 — 11:26 GMT (12:26 BST)
| Topic: Networking
The guide to edge computing: Benefits and challenges
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Alphabet’s X ‘moonshot labs’ has beamed 700TB of data across the Congo River, offering a potentially cheaper alternative to laying fiber cables in difficult terrain.
Google’s solution for crossing the Congo River is to create a connection between Brazzaville and Kinshasa that relies on “free space” optics, which was also used to transmit data in its now shut down Loon project. It uses light to transmit data between two points, in this case, a 4.8km distance that would require a 400km land route for fiber due to the river. Connectivity is five times more expensive in Kinshasa because the fiber connection has so far to travel.
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Liam Tung
| September 17, 2021 — 11:26 GMT (12:26 BST)
| Topic: Networking