Technology21.10.2005
Stratospheric broadband on the way
BBC News reports that trials using a 12,000 cubic metre balloon, flying at an altitude of around 24km for nine hours have achieved a data rate link of 11Mbps, proving that high altitude platforms like airships offer a real alternative to current broadband infrastructures, which all have limitations of some kind.
Researchers say the launch cost of the airship infrastructure is likely to be one-tenth that of satellite and one airship can support a user density a thousand times that of satellite.
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