RURAL BROADBAND
October 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLA EUROPEAN Space Agency (ESA) pilot is combining wireless satellite broadband services with terrestrial local area networks (LANs) to bring high speed Internet access to rural areas in Britain. Working with the UK's Avanti Communications, France's Eutelsat and Rural Solutions - a British rural development group - the 'Broadband Access for Rural Regeneration with DVB-RCS' (BARRD) trial is about to begin. ESA said it would connect 24 rural business parks in England and Scotland, which have no cable broadband infrastructure. An ESA note said the ...
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