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Motorola Field Tests Wireless Broadband At 300Mbps

Posted by timothy on from the are-we-there-yet-are-we-there-yet-are-we-there-yet dept.

cft_128 writes "Motorola Labs just finished field testing its new ODFM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) wireless broadband technology that prove it can attain 300Mbps. This is only a test, but it is an order of magnitude faster than the fiber to the premises that Verizon is now starting to offer. They do mention that the final network would only see 20Mbps sustained and 100Mbps peak."

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  1. How long until WiLan sues 'em? by mcg1969 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can't be too long. They think they patented all OFDM technology, it would seem.

  2. Free Software Automobile Telemetrics? by lofi-rev · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "..traveling at typical highway speeds (in excess of 100 kilometers per hour or 62 mph)."

    With a connection like that you could easily set up some pretty cool homebrew telemetric systems. Maybe have a community database of good restaurants?

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  3. Many things to consider... by John+Seminal · · Score: 4, Interesting
    First, I would be happy if I could get 14.4k/sec with my wireless phone, but they charge a monthly fee just to use their "special services", a data charge per kilobyte, and the normal air minutes. I would use my cell phone to check emails, and that would be about it. Maybe to read the newspaper. So for me, I don't need anything faster. But I don't want to pay three times for the same service. I can only imagine how much any faster internet service would cost. I fear the day of the $100 a month cell phone bill is near.

    There is a second concern that I can think of. If a phone is able to get broadband speed and has a videocamera attached, it could cause privacy problems. Do we really want a new kind of voyer with these devices??

    What else could broadband on a phone be used for?? I doubt anyone will use their cell phone as a computer. A phone is first a phone and secondly all other things. Plus, cell phones have such limited battery use times, that I doubt anyone would really use those other features for more than a very limited time.

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  4. Uhh, hey man, like, use it for your HOME PC by cbreaker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who said this was for phones?

    Wireless broadband COULD be used for phones *I guess* but it's more likely to be used for people's home PC's or notebook PC's, at least at first.

    Wireless technology has a MUCH better chance at rapid deployment in most areas because all you need to do is set up some antennas - whereas with fiber or other wired networks you have to lay down millions of meters of lines to reach everyone's home.

    I believe that it's going to be the method of network access for the future. Cheap deployment, fast, and mobile.

    Unless you live in NYC or some other major metropolis, don't expect very high speed internet access within the next 10 years or more if you're waiting for verizon's fiber. But if Motorola deploys it's wireless system on a wide scale, you could see it in half that time.

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  5. Power consumption issues with mobiles by berkeleyjunk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I really don't think this can be used for mobile nodes. Power consumption issues with OFDM might relegate this technology for use only with fixed nodes. I don't think we will have a usable laptop adapter for this technology. I have experience using a 802.11a adapter on my laptop and it sucked the life out of my laptop's battery at express speed.