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.'"
Re:Damn patent trolls (Score:0, Informative)
Cost? (Score:4, Informative)
10 Gbps would be nice, but I'm guessing the cost of this system would be at least a magnitude greater than the AirFibers.
CSIRO != NPE (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Good work by the Australians (Score:3, Informative)
Subtle but important addition ... (Score:5, Informative)
A vital point not explicitly highlighted in the summary - the Science and Industry Endowment Fund providing some of the funding for this work was the main beneficiary of last year's settlement around CSIRO's wireless patent.
That is, the settlement money is being directly reinvested in new research to further develop wireless technologies, as well as public good research in other fields.
Re:See? CSIRO is no troll (Score:5, Informative)
I can't stand the idea of government taking someones money under threat of force
Pay tax much? Governments get to charge taxes because they have standing armies. This has been the way since the dawn of city states and will not change because you don't like it.
Re:csiro? new tech? (Score:5, Informative)
Solar hot water [csiro.au]
A4 DSP chip
Aerogard, insect repellent [wikipedia.org]
Atomic absorption spectroscopy [wikipedia.org]
Distance measuring equipment (DME) used for aviation navigation [wikipedia.org]
Gene shears [csiro.au]
Extended Wear Contact Lenses [csiro.au]
Interscan Microwave landing system, a microwave approach and landing system for aircraft [csiro.au]
Use of myxomatosis and calicivirus to control rabbit numbers
Parkes Radio Telescope
The permanent pleat for fabrics
Polymer (plastic) banknotes, or "funny money"
Relenza flu drug
'Softly' woolens detergent
X-ray phase contrast imaging
Buffalo fly trap
EXELGRAM (optical anti-counterfeiting technology)
RAFT (Reversible Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer) Polymerisation [csiro.au]
The Mills Cross radiotelescope design
Supercapacitors [csiro.au]
24 hour tests for Tuberculosis in animals and humans [csiro.au]
It was also the CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope that beamed the Moon Landing.
CSIRO isn't a patent troll, they're a government owned R&D organisation. They get money from inventions, but who doesn't? Patent trolls come up with (obvious) ideas and never make it work. CSIRO actually patents completed inventions.
Some more achievements for you. [csiro.au]
Re:See? CSIRO is no troll (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Cost? (Score:2, Informative)
Two links will be fine on the same tower. The beamwidth is very narrow at 24GHz and the radios are GPS synched.
http://forum.ubnt.com/showthread.php?t=50005
Re:Cost? (Score:2, Informative)
It's actually 700 Mbps symmetric, and that is achievable at about 1.5 miles (Direct from the engineers mouthes at the release conference). 24gHz is also prone to "rain fade". This will be a great product but make sure you read through all the marketing BS. As a note Ubiquity is in the market to have "Disruptive Pricing". Most other vendors are selling PtP links at the same speed for closer to $13K - $25K.
Re:csiro? new tech? (Score:3, Informative)
You say "socialism" as though it is a bad thing.
Many many countries that are not the USA don't agree.