Siemens Develops 1 gbit/sec Wireless Link

jonknee writes "Siemens has developed mobile wireless technology with transfer rates as high as 1 gigbit per second. This blows the doors off of '3G' technology, or EV-DO (the high-speed data technology used by Verizon Wireless and soon by Sprint PCS). Not all the specs are out yet (more info is expected early next year), but it uses three transmitting and four receiving antennas. With any luck the phone in your pocket will have a gigabit link by the year 2015."

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Faster than 3G .. heck, its faster than 802.11G

[CdBee]

How can it be possible to get a cellular data service that's faster than a WiFi LAN?

Also, if this is for real, surely this has implications for the many planned city-wide wifi grids (Wi-Max, etc) and other mobile broadband solutions, as it could make them obsolete very quickly.

Re:So, in 2015, ...

[metlin]

Funny, I just read on Boing Boing that an Indian movie will be the first full-length feature film to premiere on a wireless cellular network.

Details here.

And which is why, "predictions" like FooBar will happen by 2015 are quite amusing - you really cannot know. For all you know, it may happen within the next couple of years. If there is one thing we should know as geeks, it is that technology can never ever be predicted.

Re:for what

[Anonymous Coward]

I imagine the new "smart army" could think of a few uses for that kind of data rate. Things that were previously not possible with games spring to mind. Static and dynamic image/video/audio transfer are pretty obvious. Aside from new applications made possible, I imagine many current wireless application would benefit simply from the increased data rate.

Re:for what

[DigitumDei]

Just a simple thought came to mind moments after I hit submit.

It always bothers me that I essentially have to go through the extra step of transfering any pictures I take on my phone, to my PC.

Imagine if in 2015, I can take high resolution photos (and even video) from a hand held device (we really should stop calling them phones ;) ) that is saved directly to my PC at home. The phone can have a small (by tomorrows standards at least) amount of local storage, but the vast majority of storage used would be on the terabytes or petabytes of storage we'll have at home then.

When do cellular and WLAN merge?

[cale]

This article is interesting in the standard kind of wow, high bandwidth wireless kind of way. However, as wireless LAN technologies become more long distance (Wi-Max) and cellular technologies become more high bandwidth (this article), when will the two converge into a united space?
I know there is a difference in the licensing of the spectrum, but disregarding governmental interferences, prevents wireless LAN and cellular from essentially becoming the same type of standard?

Thanks Zak, you made this thread Informative

[shis-ka-bob]

This is an interesting link. Is is a gross oversimplification to state that Hartley-Shannon gets 'super Nyquest' rates by using the amplitude to encode multiple bits per cycle? I'm sure that this could be done 'in principle', but in practice, the amplitude is dropping off as 1/r (power drops as 1/r^2) and amplitude is messed up by all sorts of other things (wall, rain, me ...). How in practice do people achieve this theoretical bitrates? Do you have to send a 'reference singnal' and use the relative amplitudes?