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BACKGROUND
Given the lack of infrastructure to support the current and projected
demands for broadband data communication, an intense race has begun
to deploy broadband networks. Tosatisfy businesses and consumers, Internet
Service providers ("ISPs") are the majors in deliveringinternet access
service.Today the access service is provided by five types of competitors:
Cable Operators
and 38 GHz bands, wireless local loop at the PCS bands, or packet relay at
ISM
)About 70 percent of homes occupied by customers are being served by large
national ISPs.The remaining 30 percent of customer's homes are being served by
local ISPs that range in sizefrom hundreds to tens of thousands of customers. Most
consumers are utilizing 29\8.8 Kbps dial-up modems, and a small percent have
already migrated to 56 Kbps modems. Most businesses areutilizing DS-1
connections (1.544Mbps).
The Local ISP
The local ISPs are perhaps the most entrepreneurial and fastest growing segment of
themarket, expanding at rates approaching 75 percent per year. In order to maintain
this rapid rate of growth in the face of new competition from the RBOs and the
cable companies, these local ISPsare anxious to adopt new technologies that will
allow them to differentiate their services.The local ISPs think they will be required
to provide megabit per second rates to homesand business in order to survive.
However, they are precluded from using the cable infrastructureas cable
companies are viable competitors to them. Similarly, the RBOCs plan to
offer high-speed Internet access through Digital Subscriber line ("DSL")
services and may also competedirectly with the local ISPs. Whereas, the HALO
Network will allow the ISPs to offer distance-insensitive connections within the
HALO Network service area, bypassing the Local ExchangeCarriers and
Interchange Carriers, to substantially reduce their cost of service.Cable operators
are facing a significant threat from direct broadcast satellitecompanies and
wireless cable companies. With the advent of cable modems, the
cable TV companies see a new opportunity in two way data communication.
Although this would appear to be an excellent diversification strategy, there are
technical challenges affecting the delivery of aneffective two way broadband
service. Specifically, cable systems are designed to send signals oneway
potentially, i.e. broadcast video from head end to consumer. In order for this
infrastructure todeliver sy mmetric two way transmission, the cable
operators will be required to invest in switching backbones and line
upgrades.
INTRODUCTION TO AIRBORNE INTERNET
The word on just about every
Internet
user's lips these days is "broadband." We have somuch more data to send and
download today, including audio files, video files and photos, that it's
clogging our wimpy modems. There's a new type of service
beingdeveloped that will take broadband into the air.The communication
payload of HALO aircraft is at the apex of a wireless supermetropolitan area network. The links are wireless, broadband and line of sight.
Subscribers accessservice on demand and will be able to exchange video,
high-resolution images, and large datafiles. Information addressed to nonsubscribers or to recipients beyond the regions served by theHALO network will
be routed through the dedicated HALO Gateway connected to the
publicswitched network or via business premise equipment owned and operated
by service providersconnected to the public
networks.AngelPhotocourtesyAngelTechnologies
This diagram shows how the HALO Network will enable a high-speed wireless
Internetconnection
time for the airborne Internet to relay data because it is not as high up.
Satellites orbit atseveral hundreds of miles above Earth. The airborne-Internet
aircraft will circle overhead at analtitude of 52,000 to 69,000 feet (15,849 to
21,031 meters). At this altitude, the aircraft will beundisturbed by inclement
weather and flying well above commercial air traffic.
Networks using high-altitude aircraft will also have a cost advantage over
satellites because the aircraft can be deployed easily -- they don't have to be
launched into space. However,the airborne Internet will actually be used to
compliment the satellite and ground-based networks,not replace them. These
airborne networks will overcome the
last-mile
barriers facingconventional Internet access options. The "last mile" refers to the
fact that access to high-speedcables still depends on physical proximity, and
that for this reason, not everyone who wantsaccess can have it. It would
take a lot of time to provide universal access using cable or phone lines, just
because of the time it takes to install the wires. An airborne network will
immediatelyovercome the last mile as soon as the aircraft takes off.The airborne
Internet won't be completely
wireless
. There will be ground-basedcomponents to any type of airborne Internet
network. The consumers will have to install anantenna on their home or
business in order to receive signals from the network hub overhead. Thenetworks
will also work with established Internet Service Providers (ISPs), who will provide
their high-capacity terminals for use by the network. These ISPs have a fiber point
of presence their fiber optics are already set up. What the airborne Internet will do
is provide an infrastructure thatcan reach areas that don't have broadband cables
and wires.The HALO network will provide consumers with a broadband digital
utility for accessingmultimedia services, the internet, and entertainment
services. The network at the subscriber's premise will be standards based and
employ auser interface as simple as today's typical consumer modem. Consumers
will be able to access video, data, and the internet rates ranging from 1 to 5Mbps.
Angle will offer higher data rates at the broadband market matures.
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