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• Bellflower Connect 시립 네트워크로 마이크로 서버 기반 저비용 고속 인터넷 제공
• Intel 엣지 인프라 활용
• 캘리포니아 Bellflower 지역(LA 외곽 75,000명 도시)에서 파일럿

파일럿 지역: 미국 캘리포니아

원문 (영어)

New Smart City Pilot Network to Bridge Digital Divide for 50 U.S. Cities June 9, 2026 Published 5G & Wireless Hide Show Image --> Powered by Intel edge infrastructure, a local California network demonstrates how micro-servers can deliver high-speed connectivity at a low cost.

--> Share In this article: BELLFLOWER, Calif. — A young woman unwillingly must leave her disabled mother at home to walk to the local library just to use the public internet to pay the household bills. A few blocks away, a family rations its online time, relying entirely on a son’s cellular data plan to check critical medical updates because traditional broadband is too expensive.

At the weekly outdoor farmers market, small business owners regularly turn away customers because weak cellular signals prevent them from accepting credit cards. These are the everyday realities in Bellflower; a suburb of 75,000 people located just 25 minutes outside of Los Angeles.

Despite its proximity to America’s second-largest city, the community has long suffered from persistent cellular blind spots and high telecom costs that have left vulnerable residents behind. Now, a new municipal network called Bellflower Connect is aiming to bridge this digital divide.

By using a private wireless network of solar-powered micro-servers with Intel® Xeon® processors inside, and AI-driven cybersecurity at the edge, the public-private partnership offers an affordable, low-power blueprint for community broadband that organizers plan to scale to 50 additional U.

S. cities under 150,000 people over the next few years.

원문: Intel Newsroom — "New Smart City Pilot Network to Bridge Digital Divide for 50 U.S. Cities" (2026-06-09) 공식 원문: https://newsroom.intel.com/5g-wireless/intel-5g-network-bridges-digital-divide