[LINK] Indonesia Overtaking Australia with Wireless Internet

[Tom Koltai]

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> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Jan Whitaker
> Sent: Saturday, 4 June 2011 9:07 AM
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Indonesia Overtaking Australia with 
> Wireless Internet
> 
> 
> At 01:27 PM 3/06/2011, Tom Koltai wrote:
> >the NBN is a
> >necessary adjunct unless Australia can find approximately an 
> additional 
> >950 MHz of Spectrum for the wireless Carriers.
> 
> I'm curious. Is there any work going on to increase the amount of 
> throughput and multiplexing within a frequency allocation? We keep 
> talking about the way fibre expansion can happen with better end 
> equipment replacement. Are there similar advancements in the R&D 
> centres for wifi as well?
> 


There is. Unfortunately the standards are created mainly by industry
bodies that have filed patents and therefore commercial interest in the
way a standard should be "passed"

For example:

A list of the Working Groups

https://mentor.ieee.org/mentor/bp/StartPage

A list of the all docos for the 802.11 since 1990.

http://www.ieee802.org/11/Reports/

Will provide hours of fascinating reading... Here's one from this
morning (US Time): (about unjustified allegations about the lack of 802
security....)
https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/11/11-11-0792-01-0jtc-802-11i-is-secu
re.ppt

From:
https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/documents

And to understand what the chip designers are allowed to do when they
make the next great world changing widget, there are a set of
interpretations for the standards....

http://standards.ieee.org/findstds/interps/


Aren't you sorry you asked ?

TomK