{"id":757792,"date":"2022-01-04T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&p=757792"},"modified":"2023-03-14T15:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T22:27:57","slug":"blendnet","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/blendnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Project BlendNet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Project BlendNet<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

BlendNet is a low-cost satellite and intelligent edge based technology which delivers digital services and content to last mile underserved users.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n

With almost half the world’s population still offline (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, reliable and affordable access to digital services is a real, global challenge. Two-thirds of world’s school age children have no internet access at home (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, reflecting the magnitude of the digital divide, especially in access to educational\/skilling content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To bridge this digital divide, BlendNet offers a low-cost, satellite and intelligent-edge based platform, which delivers digital services and content to last mile users in a hub-and-spoke model. The intelligent edge devices receive encrypted bulk content refreshed via satellite and serve as delivery endpoints for last mile users. Our mobile application\/SDK enables end-users to discover, stream and download content to their devices in an offline mode (using local Wi-Fi) without the need for internet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have conducted successful research pilots and large-scale field trial across India (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> in partnership with SES (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, a global satellite leader, and various educational\/ entertainment content partners to validate the technology at scale and capture user insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BlendNet aims to serve as an open, intelligent & affordable digital distribution platform that can democratize access to digital services across the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A cloud and satellite-based CDN that delivers online content and services to the underserved through a human in the loop (e.g., a kiosk or small local retailer\/SMB) to cover the last-mile content and internet-centric services delivery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":914913,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556,13554,13547,13568],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[261667],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-757792","msr-project","type-msr-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-research-area-human-computer-interaction","msr-research-area-systems-and-networking","msr-research-area-technology-for-emerging-markets","msr-locale-en_us","msr-archive-status-active"],"msr_project_start":"2018-02-01","related-publications":[350639],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[],"related-groups":[144784,602169],"related-events":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-posts":[],"related-articles":[],"tab-content":[],"slides":[],"related-researchers":[],"msr_research_lab":[199562],"msr_impact_theme":["Empowerment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/757792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-project"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/757792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927210,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/757792\/revisions\/927210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=757792"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=757792"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=757792"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=757792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}