[LINK] WhiteFi or Super WiFi

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Microsoft, others to test ‘super Wi-Fi’ technology in U.K. 


Microsoft is part of a new consortium that will test the use of open 
television broadcast frequencies for wide-reaching wireless Internet 
service, a technology known to some as “super Wi-Fi.” 

The Cambridge TV White Spaces Consortium – also including the BBC, Nokia, 
Samsung and other organizations – in a news release said it will launch a 
trial to “validate that TV white spaces can be used without any impact on 
traditional broadcast television in the U.K., a concept that has already 
been successfully explored in the U.S. and other European countries.”

Indeed, in September 2010, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission 
approved new technical rules for using the open broadcast spectrum 
between television frequencies, which is known as "white space."

Microsoft’s research arm has been working on “WhiteFi” systems that can 
broadcast more than 1 kilometer away.

“As compared to the airwaves we released for unlicensed use in 1985, 
this ‘white spaces’ spectrum is far more robust – traveling longer 
distances and through walls, making the potential for this unlicensed 
spectrum much greater,” FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in 
September. 

“We know what the first major application will be: super Wi-Fi. Super Wi-
Fi is what it sounds like: Wi-Fi, but with longer range, faster speeds, 
and more reliable connections. We can also expect, as we’ve seen now with 
Wi-Fi, enhanced performance from the mobile devices using licensed 
spectrum that we’ve come to rely on so heavily.”

<http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2011/06/27/microsoft-others-to-test-
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Cheers,
Stephen