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New Technology Could Kill WiMax?
GolygyddMax writes "Techworld reports that a Florida-based start-up, xG, has developed a technology that's a 1000 times more efficient than WiMax and which could, in theory, lead to wireless LANs being powered by watch batteries. It is still in early development, but this technology could allow anyone to set up as an ISP. This could kill WiMax before it even gets off the ground." From the article: "At the demonstration with other reporters, we were able to verify that the signals were being sent wirelessly, and checked the distance by GPS, but had to take the 50mW base station - and its omnidirectional antenna - on trust, since it was at the top of an 850ft mast. The demonstration will be repeated for the US press next week. The system carried 7.4 Mbit/s per MHz per Watt, said Professor Schwartz. By comparison, GSM would have around 0.0058, and CDMA/EV-DO about 0.0085 Mbit/s per MHz per Watt. "
does this mean that i can use the internet while on the toilet, through steel walls?
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Launch all ZiG 1000 times for efficent Justice!
Three orders of magnitude better than GSM or EVDO? There is no way this is true. What a load of bul^H^H^H marketing!
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This would probably one of the few Florida-based start-ups that didn't involve spam or real estate fraud. Maybe it is a breakthough in spam transmission!
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Maybe they're just using Clown Car bits?
Cool! So we get these little transmitter-thingies that are super-efficient and then implant them and run them off of our own bio-electrical energy... then we just all plug in to each other!
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From the marketing blurb: "by combining advanced technologies"... aha! I knew it! I can return to the future now, Looks like I found my ship!!
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"At this stage, with patents pending, the technology behind this is very much under wraps, and was literally present at the demonstration in a 'black box.'"
Wait... I've heard this one before. Recently. $10 says there's a midget with a chess set inside that box.
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
Overcoming the moving target problem solves the remote population problem.
Packets are stored on a bus, car, truck, plane, whatever that's leaving the remote area and offloaded as soon as the next connected population is encountered (duplicates on other cars, etc are discarded as soon as recognized). Responses are likewise loaded on the next available transports and offloaded at the destination as they arrive.
Finally, a world useable example of that "tape loaded station wagon" situation.
Of course, if these could be powered by watch batteries then they'd surely be powerable by a solar cell.
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If everyone is an ISP, who will be the subscribers?
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It's easy. 7.4Mbit/s per MHz per Watt -> 23.1LOC/hh/kg (Libraries of Congress per hogshead per kilogram) -> 1,225Gbit/HP-ft-lb/AU. Once you get past the fact that you are comparing meaningless numbers, you can pretty much make up whatever you want.
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