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

Google and Facebook have pioneered the idea of ​​"connecting the world". The "Loon Project" of the Internet giant was born in 2013 with the aim of creating a system of wireless connections with balloons. She is working on something similar but Mark Zuckerberg drone. Now, Samsung the same goal with the release of thousands of small satellites arises.

Access to the Internet is 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 entered the Internet, 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 led large companies to devise ways that 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 in Earth orbit capable of providing a "zettabyte" of data per month, equivalent to 200 GB per month 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.

Continued increase in mobile traffic

In this respect, it is recalled worldwide traffic IP (internet protocol) to reach the outrageous amount for 2017 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 Korean microsatellites suggests that 4600 might transmit a "zettabyte" of data every month.

The current technology deployment 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 in America Samsung estimates its 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 in altitude.

Ongoing 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 autumn tests with giant drones. With manufacturing Aquila, able to fly 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, began a pilot test of the Loon Project in June 2013, when 30 balloons were launched from the South Island of New Zealand and internet aired a small group.