https://blog.red7.com/around-the-edges/ Communicating in a networked world Mon, 02 Jan 2017 20:49:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.red7.com/around-the-edges/#comment-7 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:44:14 +0000 http://sky.dlfound.org/?p=99#comment-7 […] Jim Schuyler’s Blog Jim Schuyler’s – CTO of the Dalai Lama Foundation reports in his blog about the first days events: Eric Brewer of the University of California, Berkeley, gave an interesting keynote presentation this morning, discussing wireless technology and a project supporting eye clinics that perform cataract operations in remote locations for approximately $10 per patient. The details will be available elsewhere online. One of the things Eric has done is to stretch the range of wi-fi greatly – currently tested to 60km, but they’re going to test at a range of 280km and there is no reason it shouldn’t work. This would be particularly important in India, where almost all people in the country reside within at least 80km of a network connection point – so if this could be bridged by wireless, it could be a big improvem ent in availability of access. […]

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