Overview
- Addresses the “last mile challenge”, the lack of infrastructure such as electricity, hardware and communication services in developing countries
- Explores innovative technological solutions to supply broadband internet services in the form of a BARC (Broadband Apparatus for Underserviced Remote Communities)
- Will be especially valuable for researchers, professionals, service providers/suppliers, policy-makers and government representatives
Part of the book series: Southern Space Studies (SOSPST)
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About this book
This book investigates how broadband internet can be provided to remote and isolated communities through the use of satellite and other enabling technologies, in the form of a self-contained broadband apparatus. It discusses how the proposed design can help bridge the digital divide by removing one of the main hurdles to adopting technologies: infrastructure. In turn, the book explores how the lack of infrastructure, especially with regard to connectivity and electricity, can be addressed by exploiting new technological advances in a number of fields, notably the newly proposed large broadband satellite constellations. In closing, it uses concrete examples to demonstrate the potential positive impacts of a “broadband ecosystem” on economics, governance and society, and on achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Broadband Apparatus for Underserviced Remote Communities
Book Subtitle: Connecting the Unconnected
Authors: Christoffel Kotze
Series Title: Southern Space Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15766-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15765-4Published: 19 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15766-1Published: 03 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2523-3718
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3726
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 124
Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Regional Development