Microsoft Research finds more white space capacity indoors

In a collaboration with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, to study the availability of TV white space spectrum inside buildings, Microsoft Research found that 70% of UHF channels were available indoors compared to 50% outside. This is good news for those seeking solutions to bandwidth hungry applications such as home networks carrying HD and (in future) 4k video.

The results were based on an extensive campaign of measurements, indoor and outdoor, in over 30 locations across Hong Kong.

You can read more details in their paper.

Huawei pushes Wi-Fi to 10 GBps

Huawei recently demonstrated up to 10 GBps data rate over a Wi-Fi link on its campus in Shenzen, in China. It expects that this technology could be available in the market by 2018. Huawei is now chairing the IEEE 802.11ax task group working on developing the associated new standard.

This demonstration of leading edge Wi-Fi capability, complements recent Huawei investments (£374m) in developing 5G (cellular) technology - which also has potential to reach 10 Gbps, with commercial deployment possible by 2020 [depending on spectrum availability]. A key difference with the Wi-Fi connectivity is that likely smaller cell size means that few users will share the capacity and it will be easier to deliver a higher quality connection.

Together with investments in R&D on extending DSL technology (Gfast), it looks as though Huawei will be well positioned to offer a full suite of higher performance connecivity products to operators and consumers.

[Source: TechWeekEurope]

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