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To Shared Spectrum and Beyond
“This commission has moved a staggering amount of spectrum and really, kind of rezoned if you will, the EM (Electromagnetic) spectrum for the next couple of decades worth of applications,” stated Chuck Lukaszewski, Aruba/HPE. Speaking as part of a virtual panel, Lukaszewski expressed his appreciation for the FCC’s bipartisan work in this endeavor and how…
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More Efficient TV White Spaces #CES2016
Eight times higher transmit power is what the new IEEE 1900.7-2015 TV White Space standard promises. According to LETI, a French research organization and contributor to the standard, this translates into 75% longer distance for a given data rate. It achieves this performance gain without interfering with adjacent TV channels. The extended range afforded by this new modulation…
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The Smart Phone Walkie-Textie
When there is no network, a smartphone isn’t so smart. Jorge Perdomo understood that notion when he came up with the idea for the goTenna. Using the unlicensed, 151-154 MHz, MURS (Multi Use Radio Service) band, Perdomo and his colleagues developed a device that uses Bluetooth low energy to pair with a smartphone; essentially turning the smartphone into a sort of…
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To License or Not to License – the $62 Billion Question
Unlicensed spectrum adds $62 Billion in annual Incremental Retail Sales Value to the U.S. economy according to a study led by CEA Sr. Director, Technology & Standards, Mike Bergman. In the above interview, filmed at the 2015 Wireless Symposium, Bergman discusses the resulting report and the one-and-a-half year study where CEA looked at 45 different categories of devices that use unlicensed…
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A Cloud Solution for Rural 4G
Carl-Johan Torarp describes the LocalLoop solution that allows relatively rapid deployment of 4G wireless services by service providers at a cost that is lower than traditional methods. The key to their solution is bringing many of the elements of the 4G infrastructure into the cloud, such that the upfront costs are minimal. From an operational standpoint,…
