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InterDigital Demonstrates Long-Range Wi-Fi for Backhaul Applications
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InterDigital has announced the successful trial of Wi-Fi over dynamically managed unlicensed spectrum at a macrocell level.
Using an amplifier in combination with both database- and sensing-based spectrum management, the company was able to successfully stream high-bandwidth video at a power range that would cover roughly three kilometers in suburban settings or up to five kilometers in rural applications.
The company said that the approach provides operators with a potential option for Wi-Fi backhaul and other applications.
"InterDigital's DSM technology platform is a breakthrough in the use of TV White Space as a networking platform, providing both reliability and performance in the harsher shared spectrum environment. This solution is a first in enabling Wi-Fi to operate over macrocell ranges, supporting a variety of indoor and outdoor use cases, including backhaul, M2M and metro Wi-Fi deployments," said Jim Nolan, Executive Vice President of InterDigital's Innovation Labs.
Last October, the company announced the world's first live, over-the-air public demonstration of Wi-Fi access supported in dynamically selected TV White Space (TVWS) spectrum channels. Completed at the IEEE DySPAN 2012 conference, the demo featured TVWS geo-location identification via integration with TVWS database pioneer Spectrum Bridge, as well as dynamic over-the-air sensing of TVWS spectrum availability, in collaboration with Shared Spectrum.
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