ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Work is under way to develop a wireless grid on the Navajo reservation.

The Navajo Technical College in Crownpoint has teamed up with staff at the University of California-San Diego’s supercomputer center to develop the grid.

The first phase calls for building a network that could hook into the national LambdaRail, an ultrahigh-speed network used by the University of New Mexico and other schools.

The first phase also calls for taking advantage of another next-generation network known as Internet Two.

An extended system of broadband towers would then allow schools, medical clinics, hospitals and homes within a 15- to 30-mile radius of Navajo chapter houses to be connected.

Developing a wireless grid on the Navajo Nation could take years.


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