{"id":547075,"date":"2005-10-21T07:31:18","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T07:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547075-stratospheric-broadband-on-the-way.html"},"modified":"2005-10-21T07:31:18","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T07:31:18","slug":"stratospheric-broadband-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547075-stratospheric-broadband-on-the-way.html","title":{"rendered":"Stratospheric broadband on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">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. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">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. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tests in Sweden by an international research team made up of 14 partners have shown that high-speed broadband up to 120Mbps using airships in the stratosphere could be a reality within three to five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547075"}],"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=547075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}