A.I. Apocalypse (2012)
“Apocalypse CHAPTER FOURTEEN War In Beaverton, Oregon, Captain Sally Walsh prepared for the first long-distance test of the new computers. They were configured without any Avogadro mesh hardware, nor did they use old-fashioned wifi. The most secure approach would have been exclusive use of hardwired connections, but it simply wasn’t viable over long distances. There were no copper wires from point A to point B anymore, just loads of digitally interconnected networks.
So the computers relied on a combination of hardwired ethernet for short runs, and vintage military-grade wireless radios for longer runs. Lt. Walsh had grabbed three pallets of boxed up PRC-158 radios from Lackland Air Force Base before they had come to Oregon. Old enough to not be vulnerable to the virus, new enough to support data communication and be wired into the computers Sally’s team was building. With a fifty-watt power amplifier, they could get a usable twenty-five mile range between stations. Sally’s brain bal...ked at the math, but they had done it frequently enough: With twenty-five miles between nodes, they could deploy a new military grade encrypted mesh network across the Continental United States with just over seven thousand nodes.MoreLess
So the computers relied on a combination of hardwired ethernet for short runs, and vintage military-grade wireless radios for longer runs. Lt. Walsh had grabbed three pallets of boxed up PRC-158 radios from Lackland Air Force Base before they had come to Oregon. Old enough to not be vulnerable to the virus, new enough to support data communication and be wired into the computers Sally’s team was building. With a fifty-watt power amplifier, they could get a usable twenty-five mile range between stations. Sally’s brain bal...ked at the math, but they had done it frequently enough: With twenty-five miles between nodes, they could deploy a new military grade encrypted mesh network across the Continental United States with just over seven thousand nodes.MoreLess
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