Cellphone bandwidth comes close to T1: 100 Mbs
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So far, we know the next generation of cellular connectivity, called the 3G, which can be boosted by optimization like with the HSDPA, the High-Speed Downlink Packet Access. Those technologies aren’t yet the common networks, but, hey, there’s already a next next generation in development.
The protocol is currently maturing in the notorious Fraunhofer Institute in Germany (the equivalent of Bell Labs for the US) and claimed to be able to transmit data at 100 Mb/s downlink and 50 Mb/s uplink. It’s ten times faster than optimized 3G rates set to zap data up to 14.4 Mb/s.
The secret yields in the concept of employing multiple antennas. The technique also called MIMO is expected by some chipmakers like Airgo Networks, to fill in as the backbone of the future high-speed 802.11n standard. At this stage, we cannot do something else than speculate on the convergence in the medias and in technologies supporting them in the future.
Dec 29, 2006 | By Nuno
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