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.'"

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See? CSIRO is no troll

[ignavus]

See? The CSIRO engages in actual research, and patents its own work, and licences its own patented work to others.

It doesn't go around buying up patents from other companies with the aim of litigation.

The result of non-Australians paying for the use of CSIRO patents will be further research by CSIRO that could improve technology for the rest of the world - not just for Australians. If patents are to exist at all, this is how it should work.

Re:See? CSIRO is no troll

[LordLucless]

then patenting it and charging those same citizens to use what they paid to invent.

Or, in this case, charging billion-dollar companies incorporated in another country. Australian taxes should fund research for American companies - that way the tax-payers are sure to get their money's worth!

Re:See? CSIRO is no troll

[Anonymous Coward]

Why should Australians pay for wireless research just so foreign multi-billion dollar organisations can use it for free?

Re:See? CSIRO is no troll

[dbIII]

Can you imagine a world where the US government patented everything they caused to be invented?

It's really astonishing how out of touch some people are. I really don't know how you managed to avoid the PR that Universities push out about the new technologies they have patented.

Re:CSIRO != NPE

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm pretty sure that's a whoosh.

The GP would have to not read the title, let alone the summary, to honestly think what he said.

Re:CSIRO are now trolls.

[The Evil Atheist]

I wouldn't mind so much except they never deliver on more than 90% of projects.

That's why it's called science and research you retard. If you have a way of knowing which scientific study or development project based on new studies will be successful beforehand, please enlighten us, because we would like to bypass all that theorizing stuff and just plug numbers in formulae.