Siemens Continues OFDM Push

Khoo writes "German telecommunications gear maker Siemens is backing a new kind of broadband wireless technology that will compete with Wi-Fi and 3G cellular services." As we covered recently, speed tests have been up to 360 Mbps and one of the latest rumours is that they will use it in conjunction with VoIP servers. That's unconfirmed, but particularly for new phone deployments, laying no wire would be nice. And Yes, Virginia - ITMJ is part of OSTG, like Slashdot.

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To Clarify:

[Enigma_Man]

ITMJ, part of OSTG reports about OFDM to use VoIP?

Good...

-Jesse

Re:To Clarify:

[Anonymous Coward]

This article is an example that acronyms do not support understanding. OFDM is "orthogonal freqency division multiplexing". In other words, it's a kind of modulation. It does not compete with Wi-fi. 802.11g uses OFDM too.

Re:VoIP for Mobiles is overkill

[gl4ss]

that's exactly the point many people forget when they're hyping up voip for mobiles, that the for _mobile_ use networks already have been tuned for transferring voice as cheaply and well as possible.

(that is, if it really gets cheap enough to build wide coverage other networks they would still have the upper hand- now, they might change gradually into providing general data services rather than clearly seperated voice functionality, but that ain't gonna happen anytime soon totally)

so the ONLY reason to use VOIP over mobile networks would be artificially stupidly twisted pricing structure.