New Mobile Network Technology at 2.5 GB/Second? 21
craig.hathaway writes to tell us that Japan's NTT DoCoMo claims to have a prototype wireless network capable of speeds up to 2.5 GB per second. From the article: "MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) uses multiple antennas to send and receive data, as well as specific coding that scrambles and unscrambles the signals produced by those antennas (see "Faster, Farther Wi-Fi"). A base station that uses MIMO technology has multiple antennas that simultaneously receive and send data to and from wireless devices. Unlike base stations with a single antenna, those with MIMO use the multiple antennas to create a number of intertwining channels through which data moves. The jumbled signals are untangled by a 'signal processing' that sorts through the bits."
Hash checking?? (Score:3, Interesting)
I could see this making mobile computing something more then it is, I know in the high end range of phones there are small computers basically in the users pocket, but this might allow it to become more of a standard and the phones we see as high priced will one day become the one we get free at sign up. Good luck to them I say
cluster? (Score:1)
Re:cluster? (Score:3, Informative)
Of course the review being written by a retard for retards is a different matter.
Re:cluster? (Score:2)
http://www.fractenna.com/ [fractenna.com]
So? (Score:4, Informative)
Technology may be convenient... (Score:3, Insightful)
"The new computer has more gigabytes than the old computer and thanks to these all additional megabytes it's faster. The bits get computered in the additional gigabytes and each gigabyte can work separately so more bits can be computered at the same time resulting in faster computering by the computer."
Oh come on... Where's the news? (Score:1, Insightful)
And they say geeks are unfit... (Score:5, Funny)
"fast enough to download a DVD movie in between 7.5 and 10 seconds -- to a mobile device traveling at 20 kilometers per hour."
Hopefully, at some point they will develop a technology that will let you download movies without running 50 metres.
Re:And they say geeks are unfit... (Score:1)
Serial vs. Parallel (Score:4, Interesting)
Are we going to see a serial version come back in 5 years, which will be much faster due to the lack of syncronization overhead required?
Not GB, Gb! (Score:2)
IEEE Spectrum (Score:1, Informative)
Nothing interesting here -- they say that currently they use fridge-sized receiver; the technology is
not quite there yet.
Uselss (Score:3, Insightful)
Think about the notorious 3G [wikipedia.org] and 4G [wikipedia.org]: a lot of buzzing, but too far from the GSM (aka 2G [wikipedia.org]) and GPRS (aka 2,5G [wikipedia.org]) to be considered a real and useful techology advance,
They should be bale to produce a mobile device able to operate and roam over three or four different network technologies (GSM/GPRS, UMTS, WiFi and 4G) with cost as low as a GSM phone. And it should be cheap enough to be adopted by more and more operators.
This sounds more like a dream than an actual business plan!
That's Hot! (Score:2, Funny)
The better to charge you with (Score:1)
And knowing DoCoMo they're going to still charge for that insane bitrate by the packet.
Holy crap, in just three seconds I rang up half a year's salary worth of charges!