the Project Loon Team developed in laboratory of Google Inc. X, tested system of distribution by means of balloons in the conditions of a disaster zone. Balloons within three months supported connection in victims of a flood regions of Peru.
the employee of laboratory of Google Inc. and the head of Project Loon Alastair Vestgart, writes the TJournal edition.Balloons of Project Loon supplied with the telecommunication equipment, rose by 20 kilometers in a stratosphere from a platform on the island Puerto Rico and overcame distance in 3,5 thousand kilometers to Peru.
Piura, Chimbote and Lima provided toof the Device access to networks of the Spanish communications operator Telefonica round the cities.
the Equipment could create a network with a covering more than 40 thousand square kilometers the traffic in which exceeded 160 GB. On sounded by A. Vestgart this, it is enough such volume of data for transfer about one million messages in a messenger of WhatsApp or sending two million electronic letters.
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