Broadband Innovations, Part 2: Fiber Optics Reaches the Tipi

In Part 2 of our four-part Broadband Innovations series, see how the Ktunaxa Nation of Canada uses fast broadband to save its indigenous language and culture from extinction.

Kajsa Linnarsson, PC World

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Marty Williams, is the son of tribal elder Leo Williams (featured on slide 2). Marty recently returned to the family home after working outside the reserve.

"I got back thinking I would have a place to sleep, but Leo had converted the second bedroom to a computer room and gave me a choice between the tipi and the floor," Marty says. "I chose the tipi."

The gray box on the wall shows the fiber going into the house. Using a standard office data cable to connect to the box, Marty can route data transmissions at fiber-optic speed to his tipi, making it probably the most connected tipi in the world.

[Photo: Kajsa Linnarsson]