{"id":66957,"date":"2017-10-26T17:06:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T09:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/alphabets-project-loon-uses-ses-capacity-to-reconnect-puerto-rico\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T09:06:51","slug":"alphabets-project-loon-uses-ses-capacity-to-reconnect-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/alphabets-project-loon-uses-ses-capacity-to-reconnect-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet\u2019s Project Loon Uses SES Capacity to Reconnect Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>SES Networks\u2019<\/strong> high-throughput and fiber-like satellite connectivity service, along with <strong>Alphabet\u2019s <\/strong>Project Loon stratospheric balloons and local telecommunications expertise, is playing a key role in restoring 4G\/LTE connectivity in disaster-affected Puerto Rico, SES announced this week.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet has combined Project Loon\u2019s targeted cell coverage with SES Networks\u2019 O3b FastConnect satellite terminal to provide high-performance connectivity to Puerto Ricans who have been left with no means of communication post-Hurricane Maria. With more than 60 percent of the island\u2019s cell towers still down, according to the <strong>Federal Communications Commission<\/strong> (FCC), both companies are working alongside local technology partners to disseminate the service to affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProject Loon is now supporting basic communication and internet activities like sending text messages and accessing information online for some people with LTE-enabled phones. This is the first time we have used our new machine learning powered algorithms to keep balloons clustered over Puerto Rico, so we\u2019re still learning how best to do this. As we get more familiar with the constantly shifting winds in this region, we hope to keep the balloons over areas where connectivity is needed for as long as possible,\u201d said Alistair Westgarth, head of Project Loon in an Oct. 20 blog post.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SES Networks\u2019 high-throughput and fiber-like satellite connectivity service, along with Alphabet\u2019s Project Loon stratospheric balloons and local telecommunications expertise, is playing a key role in restoring 4G\/LTE connectivity in disaster-affected Puerto Rico, SES announced this week. Alphabet has combined Project Loon\u2019s targeted cell coverage with SES Networks\u2019 O3b FastConnect satellite terminal to provide high-performance connectivity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}