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CSIRO Demonstrates Fastest Wireless Link Yet
rob101 writes "The CSIRO yesterday demonstrated the world's 'fastest' wireless radio link by transmitting sixteen full quality DVD streams over a 250m link and only using a quarter of the available bandwidth. 'The CSIRO ICT Centre today announced that it has achieved over six gigabits per second over a point to point wireless connection with the highest efficiency (2.4bits/s/Hz) ever achieved for such a system.'" CSIRO hopes to double the speed of this connection in the future, pushing twelve gigabits a second.
Only to realise that the extremely high frequency is ionizing my head...
Actually, I wouldn't worry about ionizing radiation as those only start at frequencies above visible light.
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Radio comms has been a productive area of reasearch at CSIRO for decades. Politicians who ignore them are the ones who waste MY tax dollars. There are many examples that defend the CSIRO's enviable reputation for genuine science without political "fear or favour", ie a "model public service" (as opposed to the non-existant "perfected public service" or the ever present "public propoganda service").
To give an example of just one "public service": The CSIRO were the first to demonstrate to the world that radiation from atmoshperic testing of nukes was ending up as plutonium and other RA trace elements in childrens bones (MY bones considering the era). They found out by starting with an agricultural study into sheep near an Australian test site run by the Brit's and found the bombs were adding to a rapidly growing planet wide "haze" of radioactive dust.
Obviously they were not popular with the politicians of the day when their extrodinary claim was promptly backed with extrodinary evidence.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Cost of the LCD screens. I'm not joking.
Opus: the Swiss army knife of audio codec