The face of Wi-Fi could change forever, with innovations involving the use of outer space, according to theregister.co.uk.
While the general public may be used to getting their Wi-Fi from routers in the home or in public places, new developments could result in free Wi-Fi being made available across the whole world by using satellites in space instead.
‘Outernet’ is the name that’s been given to one new method of Wi-Fi that plans to bring a connection from outer space. Groups of satellites would create a Wi-Fi service that would be completely free to people all over the world.
Innovation appears to be the key to keeping up with the increasing demands of a connected general public, but is outer space going to be the answer?
Spacenews.com reports that it’s not feasible for W-Fi devices to share the same section of radio spectrum as satellite radars, which could put a spanner in the works for the Outernet plan.
Chairman of CEPT’s (AKA: the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations Administrations’) Electronic Communications Committee, Eric Fournier said: “To prevent interference the Radio LANS would need to operate at ten times lower power levels than they are using in adjacent bands.”
Outernet’s system intends to use cubesats – tiny satellites that are utilised for space research. With these devices already being in space and not causing interference for the radars, the cubesats could be the key to bringing Wi-Fi to the entire globe.
