San Francisco surfing into the office.

Congestion, stress, hours-long trips - for the commuters of the Silicon Valley is no longer a problem. A new high-tech network of biofuel buses offer wireless Internet, laptop connections and a café latte. The very best in the Revolution: At last, the nerds already on the way into the office to work!

 

Outside San Francisco's skyline attracts over - inside the e-mails and messages.

On the trip to Silicon Valley knautschen people in black leather seats. Connect to laptop power sockets in the Busarmatur to. Check Web sites. Sign in via Virtual Private Network (VPN,
more knowledge on blogs ...) in the network of their company - and sometimes begin to work on.

Work with a difference: three wireless network bus routes since last week from San Francisco to Silicon Valley tech kingdoms such as San Jose, Sunnyvale or Mountain View. -Up with wireless LAN, cable television and an on-board service, café latte, muffins and yogurt with fresh fruit enough to combine the bus and technological Machbarkeitswahn Californian eco-attitude. The wireless network will be tech commuters to move from car to more environmentally friendly transport switch.

Neil DSouza, 24, is among the first guests in the new nerd-luxury liner. He is a programmer at the IT giant Cisco in San Jose. But in Silicon Valley where he will not live. His apartment is located in approximately 60 kilometers from San Francisco. Like most people who work in the Valley, he must commute.

The new bus line keeps it an attractive alternative to the car: "The time that I otherwise sitting behind the steering wheel, I can now use productively," says DSouza. Only newspaper to read and listen to music never gave him an incentive for bus drivers - but now he can surf the net.

Slightly more than one hour to drive from San Francisco to the Valley. "We give the commuters every week, ten hours of their life back," says Gary Bauer, the bus operator and CEO of the company's Intelligent Transportation Bauer. The time saved is not exactly cheap. $ 8.20 cost of a ride in a luxury liner Nerd.

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DSouza, however, the most of it not even pay for it. Because a new environmental regulation in the greater San Francisco requires companies with more than 20 employees since January that its employees to use public transport to compensate - or their own shuttle services. To pay for Cisco Dsouzas ticket.

Previously calculated the Wi-buses only as a private shuttle service for IT giants. Chauffeur companies like Google with them for quite some time its own personnel to work. Gary Bauer hopes the commuter transportation by the new environmental regulation as a public transport works. For commercial success, further lines are planned.

The wireless network drive buses with biodiesel. Had the three lines twice daily, each with 52 guests busy, would annually 1310 tonnes less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere gepustet, Bauer has entrepreneurs specifically. His company prides itself to be 96 per cent CO2-neutral to be: As compensation for its own Kohlendioxidausstöße the company buys green electricity certificates (RECS), which renewable energy should be promoted.

Bauer's attitude is symptomatic of the well of U.S. President Barack Obama called for eco-revolution. Again and again, the new government has stressed that the 787-billion-dollar economic package of green technologies. It has been estimated that at least 38 billion U.S. dollars to promote energy efficient technologies, plus up to another 20 billion U.S. dollars in tax relief over the next ten years. The so-called Green Tech is considered one of the next big growth markets - and the Silicon Valley as a creative forge their business models.

Since Obama is President, and in the greater San Francisco new environmental laws, is the climate for entrepreneurs like Gary Bauer favorable. A new boom times as dotcom bubble awaits the entrepreneur but not - "the face of the greatest economic crisis since the Second World War is far greater selection pressure," he says. "It is probably not a new startup Schwemme give."

Stable network by spreading data

Crackles rain on the roof of the black tech shuttle. About a remote mountain stops milky-yellow sunlight through the dark gray clouds wall. With 70 miles per hour schliddert Wi bus klatsch ate at the 101-Highway to the south. The wireless connection purrs stable at 24 Mbits per second. Astonishing how this actually works?

While the Wi-bus from right out of a pickup, is an Internet search on the web page of the company Parvus that the wireless technology of Wi-bus bears the name Ridernet - and also at the Massachusetts Bay
trains will be used there, too, with the aim of travel on public transport more attractive. The Ridernet service uses to obtain the Internet connection a variant of the so-called EVDO technology.

EVDO stands for Evolution-Data Optimized. Grob says allows the transmission of Internet data, inter alia, via radio signal. The signal is spread over a larger bandwidth spread and is therefore less susceptible to interfering.

Indeed, the Internet reception on board even better than the TV signal. The CNN round table discussion in the bus on six flat screens flickering, always tear off. "We live in a Facebook world," screeches there just a talk show host, from the stuttering reception will be interrupted. "In a world of Twitter! One American Idol world, but we also live in the real world. You do not forget!"

For a brief moment mustered DSouza provoking the monitor, then he would rather look back on the laptop and programmed to code.