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Students Use 802.11g To Save Cable Industry

Posted by michael on from the in-your-dreams dept.

LiquidFun writes "Business undergraduates at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business have written an e-business case for one of their case competitions that describes how to use 802.11g wireless technology to distribute cable content, both interactive and broadcast, throughout the home. They mention features like video-on-demand, cable gaming, etc. and even provide enough of the technical specifications necessary to start believing that this could work. They even make available their PowerPoint presentation that they presented to judges from both Cisco & Deloitte Consulting. I'd say a pretty good job for third-year undergrads."

8 of 169 comments (clear)

  1. Wow. by pompousjerk · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't want to save it. It sux0rs.

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    Fear my righteous wrath of feces!!!!

  3. BULLSHIT!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I had this SAME idea for my business project.. where's my 15 minutes of fame???

    This is such a fucking rip-off!!

  4. Thanks... but this doesn't apply to Slash-Dorks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    the closest they'll get to going down on a girl is to those rubber dolls being sold online.

  5. Missed bandwidth by a few orders of magnitude by isdnip · · Score: 0, Troll

    The proposal has everything on the cable sent over 802.11g all the time, so even TVs that aren't on will receive the signal. Well, lessee, a cable can support about a hundred (depending on the plant) downstream channels, which digitized are around 30 mbps apiece, so that's 3 Gbps... sure, that'll fit into 802.11g, not.

    And the 2.4 GHz band is already congested. It's home of the microwave oven, for one thing, so reception would be mighty bad while the corn is popping. The last thing it needs is a wideband access point in every home.

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