Any manufacturers care to clue us in on why Dell et. al. are the only one's
submitting devices? We'd like to see this band NOT be used for personal
portable devices anyway.
Alvarion, Motorola, Atheros, where are you guys?????
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kristopher Twomey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Principal WISPA Member List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject: [Wisp] TV Whitespace Devices not ready for prime time
Lost among all the hoopla about the 700 Mhz auction news, another issue
that's probably more important to WISPs in the long run was addressed on
Friday. After the FCC released its proposed rules for TV whitespace, the
FCC asked manufacturers to provide devices for testing to the FCC lab. The
FCC released the results of the two devices and they were not impressed.
The lab found the devices to be too prone to causing interference. These
were just the first prototypes and were bound to be weak. Now that
manufacturers have a better idea of what the FCC is looking for, they can
go back to the drawing board and try again. Comments are due on the notice
by August 15th with reply comments due August 27th. Wouldn't be a bad idea
for a few of you to file comments and let the FCC know that just because
these devices didn't work, the commission should resist any pressure to
delay the opening of this spectrum and work with manufacturers to create a
market of compliant devices. Also, the prototypes were created by a
consortium of Dell, Google, HP, Intel, Microsoft and Philips. Are any
WISPA vendors working on TV whitespace gear? If not, any idea why not? I'm
just a dumb lawyer but this seems like a potentially large market for
Alvarion, Trango, Motorola and everybody else.
Here's the link to the public notice:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-07-3457A1.pdf
Here's the link to the report with all the technical details:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-275666A1.pdf
Kris
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