More Antennas, Faster Wireless

rouge86 writes "The New Scientist has a story on how researchers broke the network speed record using a wireless network and multiple antennas. They plan to use the demonstration to show how powerful multiple antennas can be. Applications include power saving on mobile phones and reducing interference."

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Great engineering

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

For those who don't care about reading the entire article, the crux of it is:

Recombining smaller signals in real time, however, requires considerable computing power. So the Siemens team developed new computer algorithms in order to send more data using existing hardware.

In short: programmers managed to push existing hardware with a more efficient code. That's called hacking, albeit with a serious look, and I like that!

duplicate post

[Anonymous Coward]

this is the same post, as the dec 08 slashdot post here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/08/022625 0&from=rss/