Japan’s WINDS satellite – a joint project of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries – was launched into orbit February 23, 2008 at 5:55 p.m. WINDS is an ambitious project with new technology that promises to deliver “super high-speed Internet” service to homes and businesses around the world.
When tests aboard the new satellite is successful, subscribers will just need small dishes will connect to the Internet at speeds that surprasses the current speeds available to us to day. On record, the satellite is said to offer speeds of up to 1.2 gigabytes per second at a cost far less than what our current ISPs cost. How? Just think of the amount of cabling that ISPs need to keep the current lines of connection.
Tests and initial deployment will focus on the Asia-Pacific region around to Japan (Southeast Asia to be exact). Now I wonder how long till it reaches the Phillipines. Cheap yet fast internet access is bound to turn everyone’s heads
The rocket was launched from Japan’s Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center.
[via CNN]
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Not sure but I’ve read somewhere that a similar satellite-based internet connection has been used by the US military for years now. It’s a good thing something similar is now available to the public. If it does become available here in the Philippines, how would the local ISPs react? would they adapt it? Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
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One of the good things that can root from this is a nationwide, wireless network. We just need a dish (or a connection to a network that does it for us) to get connected ^^.
No need for ZTE.