M.I.T. - Media Lab

The Vision
Assumptions
Practical Plan
Central Themes
Physical Structure
Services
  Health, Environment
  Education
  Teleconference
  Communications
  Information
  E-commerce
  Components
unWired, Unwiring the World

Communications:
Each Center will be equipped with a telephone exchange. Public phone services will be provided with two telephone booths directly within the Center, as well as up to several hundred wireless remote nodes at a maximum radius of 15 miles.

Initially wireless service will be CDPD-based Wireless Local Link (WLL). Soon, however, we will transition to IP telephony, allowing voice, email, and Web communications. Wireless nodes will be powered by solar cells or hand cranks.

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