Hier volg enkele uittreksels uit ‘n artikel wat op 28 Februarie 2016 in The Times Of Israel verskyn het.
“Satellite pioneer SkyFi’s Vision: Worldwide
internet access.”
“More reliable than underwater cables, easily expandable, and capable of almost limitless communication – that’s the promise of a new nano satellite-based network being developed by Israeli satellite start-up SkyFi.
“Not only will we be able to develop a worldwide Internet, we will be able to enable any type of communication between two points – telephone, digital, and
even television – with the satellite network we are planning to put in space,” said Raz Itzhaki Tamir, co-founder and CEO of SkyFi. ...
Though the Internet reaches around the world, there still some 4 billion people who are not online because they live in rural areas where there are no connections, either wired or wireless. Providing access to those areas has
become an important goal for both Google and Facebook, both of which are spending hundreds of millions on systems that will bring Internet access to far-flung areas via drone or balloons. ...
“We are planning to launch 60 nano-satellites that will cover the entire planet, working together in constellation that will offload tasks to each other as needed,” said Tamir. “Each satellite will cost a million dollars, so 60 nano-satellites will cost the same as one
full-sized satellite, with the advantage of being able to spread them around the globe and connect them in a network that can work together.” ...
In addition, said Tamir, the communications technology used by SkyFi’s nano-sats will provide much faster connectivity than existing satellites.
“Current nano-sats can provide communication speed of two megabits per second,” said Tamir. “We’re a lot faster – about a gigabit per
second.”
That is fast enough to enable video transmission, which require a lot of bandwidth – meaning that for the first time, an international, worldwide television satellite system would be feasible with the SkyFi system. ...” (Beklemtoning my eie.)