5 GHz Wireless Networking With CMOS Transceivers

cthugha writes: "On the back of IPv6 and fat pipes, we Aussies have been at it again. Radiata, a company set up by a couple of Sydney-based researchers, has achieved wireless networking for LANs in the 5 GHz band using CMOS-based transceivers. This means (i) low power consumption, (ii) high bandwidth (currently, 54 Mbps with a view to getting up to 100 Mbps) and (iii) low cost. Unfortunately, like most Australian inventions, this one has only found serious commercial backing overseas, specifically from Cisco (government/big business over here has no brain)." Products, please? For half a billion dollars' investment, I hope Cisco plans to start selling some toys, fast.

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Um, old news?

[Frymaster]

You could have a plasma screen on your wall running four or five television channels simultaneously, and you could take the screen off the wall and walk around with it.

My parents had a TV in the 60's that worked on similar technology... apparently the image and sound were streamed to the this video-on-demand appliance using a protocol called UHF (or it's competitor VHF). In the same vein, I must note the my grandfather in fact built his own wireless audio streaming appliance back in the 30's! In fact, the appliance was called a "wireless" and was based on an Amplitude Modulation protocol called, simply, AM.

Isn't progress amazing?