Group 5 "Interlacing Networks"
Members: 1,920
Founded: 35 A.D. Known bases & outposts: Technology and Communications Leader: Katie Jiang Interlacing Networks, better known as iNet is the collaborative cross-zone networking system made possible by naturally-occuring intradimensional communication trees on Zone 6 and the manufacturing of cellular reception equipment in other zones. |
iNet was founded by Katie Jiang around 15 years ago when she was frustrated by the lack of reliable inter-zone and long-range communications. Sending information what a herculean task, completely relying on services like Pegasus Underground to deliver letters and thumbdrives filled with information. Previously from arriving in The Darkrooms, Katie was a senior network architect at a major telecom company so she was very driven to discover a solution to these communication issues. There have been several zones discovered that have functional computer equipment and she was confident she could at least do SOMETHING to improve and connect the small zone-specific networks to each other. She found a solution while scouting out Zone 6, a large zone of grassy hills with thick bundles of wires running in every direction. On the tallest of the hills was a collection of massive satellite dishes and enormously tall cellular towers. After a couple years of tests her team discovered that when they used this equipment to transmit signals, radio equipment in some other zones could actually detect the radio waves. Her team ran more and more complex tests, starting with morse code transmissions between Zone 1 and Zone 6, progressing to full video broadcasts, and finally successfully repeating a signal from Zone 1 to Zone 6 to Zone 7. Since these successful transmissions, Katie's team has amassed a massive organization of network designers, industrial professionals, and techs. The technology has progressed to the point where bandwidth has been massively increased using specially-tuned and manufactured iNet radio gear that sends information to Zone 6 which repeats the information to all other zones with iNet connectivity. Effectively, iNet is an inter-dimensional internet provider using advanced Darkroom cellular towers that aren't yet fully understood.