{"id":171089,"date":"2016-07-07T08:44:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T06:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=171089"},"modified":"2016-07-07T08:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T06:46:36","slug":"facebook-opencellular-an-open-source-wireless-access-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/171089-facebook-opencellular-an-open-source-wireless-access-platform.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook OpenCellular: An open-source wireless access platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has unveiled OpenCellular, an open-source wireless access platform that will bring connectivity to remote areas of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe designed OpenCellular as an open system so anyone &#8211; from telecom operators to researchers to entrepreneurs &#8211; can build and operate wireless networks in remote places,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\/posts\/10102946233865511\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An OpenCellular device is about the size of a shoe box, and can support up to 1,500 people from up to 10km away.<\/p>\n<p>OpenCellular can be deployed to support a range of communication options, from a network in a box to an access point supporting 2G to LTE.<\/p>\n<p>The system is composed of a\u00a0general-purpose and base-band computing system with integrated power and housekeeping, and a radio frequency system with integrated analogue front end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe aim to work with Telecom Infra Project members to build an active open-source community,&#8221; said Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/OpenCellular-Kit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-171095 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/OpenCellular-Kit-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"OpenCellular Kit\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/OpenCellular-Kit-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/OpenCellular-Kit.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/OpenCellular-Kit2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-171097 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/OpenCellular-Kit2-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"OpenCellular\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/OpenCellular-Kit2-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/OpenCellular-Kit2-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/OpenCellular-Kit2.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Facebook<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/168561-facebook-messenger-now-supports-sms.html\"><strong>Facebook Messenger now supports SMS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/168037-facebook-launches-video-comments.html\"><strong>Facebook launches video comments<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/170437-facebook-is-killing-paper.html\"><strong>Facebook is killing Paper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has unveiled OpenCellular, an open-source wireless access platform for remote areas of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":171093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[36,161,1767,37963],"class_list":["post-171089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","category-wireless","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-opencellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171109,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171089\/revisions\/171109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}