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CSIRO Develops 10 Gbps Microwave Backhaul
theweatherelectric writes "James Hutchinson of iTnews writes, 'CSIRO has begun talks with global manufacturers to commercialise microwave technology it says can provide at least 10 Gbps symmetric backhaul services to mobile towers. The project, funded out of the Science and Industry Endowment Fund and a year in planning, could provide a ten-fold increase in the speed of point-to-point microwave transmission systems within two years, according to project manager, Dr Jay Guo. Microwave transmission is used to link mobile towers back to a carrier's network where it is physically difficult or economically unviable to run fibre to the tower. Where current technology has an upper limit of a gigabit per second to multiple towers over backhaul, the government organisation said it could provide the 10 Gbps symmetric speeds over ranges of up to 50 kilometres.'"
Maybe I'm just a silly American but I don't think government funded organizations should be patenting anything. Can you imagine a world where the US government patented everything they caused to be invented? That's why you'll see so much anger from the American side, because government shouldn't be patenting or allowing patents on anything that's funded with taxpayer dollars. I can't stand the idea of government taking someones money under threat of force, using that money to invent something, then patenting it and charging those same citizens to use what they paid to invent.