Dell adopts "WiFi on steroids".
In short, access to white spaces offers "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to provide ubiquitous wireless broadband access to all Americans."
I have pondered at great length about the enormous opportunity White Space represents
After the FCC approved the Google Backed White Space Use, the largest PC maker announces they will incorporate this technology.
From PC World Dell To Offer White Space Connectivity In Laptops
Dell will add a new wireless option to future laptops by installing radio chips that provide connectivity over the unused television spectrum known as white spaces. Proponents say the TV spectrum can carry broadband signals significantly farther than Wi-Fi, and that opening up the spectrum will help expand the market for new smartphone-like devices.
Today some 1 billion WiFi chips are shipped each year.
"We intend to integrate white-space radios into future Dell products," said Neeraj Srivastava, director of technology policy at Dell. The products could include laptops, netbooks, and any other devices that provide wireless network access. White spaces could solve a lot of the problems of the 2.4GHz spectrum and allow for higher-bandwidth applications such as streaming audio and video.
4 Reasons why you should care about White Space.
(Hint: one of them is the fastest WiFi ever)
How will this new spectrum affect WiFI players, telcos and cable cos?
Also this week Intel announced they were scrapping their ultrawideband efforts.
More white space ponderings
1 comment:
The receiver could be in the form of a small box, about the size of a modem, or, as is already being developed, a card that can be built into a Laptop the same way a Wi-Fi card is in most computers today.
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