CSIRO Develops 10 Gbps Microwave Backhaul 121
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.'"
Damn patent trolls (Score:5, Funny)
don't be fooled by this guys (Score:0, Funny)
i see through the facade and this is just the next generation of patent trolling
we've been complaining for over a decade now that patent trolls just collect up ip then sue everyone hoping they'll just settle. i believe is the first in a game changing breed of patent trolls. this has all been planned in advanced and is now set to payout unprecedent dividends
you see, this so called "CSIRO," in all likelyhood, predicted a point where they simply couldn't just be an "IP agency". a company that only exists to collect IP then sue others for infringing on said IP would eventually lose respect from all facets of society. to avoid falling into disrepute, they endeavoured on the next logical step. they labelled themselves as a "research organisation". you see, by calling themselves a research organisation, it's significantly more difficult to claim they are only trying to make money simply off IP.
but that's just evolutionary.
this CSIRO's plan was game-changing.
you see, while labelling themselves as a "research organisation" may garner some respect from people not in the know. however, if they were to be put under scrutiny, experts in the field and any quality journalist would realise this "research organisation" doesn't produce any intellectual property. they would eventually be exposed as a sham and lose whatever goodwill attributed from being a research organisation. so they made the bold move of producing intellectual property. companies like IBM, HP, Apple, Microsoft have been filing patent after patent on the most mundane of things. so this "research organisation" they started filing to. this would mean they could legitamately be called a "research organisation".
but that's just revolutionary.
the CSIRO's plan was game-chaning
see after a while, constantly filing IP, suing, and collecting would pay massive dividends and would even gain respect among experts in the industries. but again their foresight was unmatched. they predicted that a small subset of people would realise this "research organisation" does produce IP, but has no intention of actually implementing or producing anything with said IP. again this would expose them as a money-grabbing machine abusing the legal system to leech off corporations that infringe on their IP. while most people wouldn't bat an eyelid, CSIRO knew even the smallest blemish could become cancerous. so with their great foresight they changed the game.
they went about creating, producing, and implementing original IP.
the wheels for this mind-blowing move were put in motion a scant few decades ago and we're only now realising the true potential of their plan. you can see it in all the other comments relating to CSIRO where they are all highly defensive. "no, no, no. this is a real RO. they do things to help people" and "this isn't a patent troll. they have produced things that have benefitted society".
so this "CSIRO" not only claims to be a government "research organisation", but to the public has the full appearance of, and apprent operation of a research organisation. while this makes it look quite legitimate to the general public, don't be fooled by the facade. underneath this sheeps clothing the CSIRO is still a black-hearted IP agency with the sole goal of making money off the IP they obtain.
reinforce your tin-foil hats my brothers.
we must expose this CSIRO for what they truly are.