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September 29th, 2009 Administrator

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Wireless Realities – Web 2.0 Wishes

by Andrew McCaskey
How That Happens – Really

Gigohm.com has an essay called “Bring Back the Radio Wars” that points out that the 1990′s battle between GSM, CDMA, 2G, 2.5G, 3G that have now moved on to WIMAX and LTE are really healthy. If LTE is the true meeting ground of all these systems, we are, collectively in trouble. We need to stop assuming that the matter is solved. It has merely been postponed, and a vigorous debate and contention needs to be restored to the wireless design space – before 2020 or 2025 when the system becomes unusable.

In our enthusiasm for all things Web 2.0, we have become accustomed to bandwidth from the wired network, and – in bits and pieces with fits and starts some of that is becoming available in the wireless world. Our expectations, though – is that once a few of the bugs get worked out that the move to HD IP based television (in 3D, no less) will move just as smoothly as one set of wonders displaces another in the wired world.

The article points out that LTE is going to require radio handsets agile over 14 separate RF bands.. Our recent success is not assurance of future performance. Possible, yes. Likely, perhaps – but not without cost or significant effort.

As Pogo so famously said years ago ” We have met the enemy and he is us” . {sharethis}

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