Shannon's Specter
This will probably get lost in all the iPhone crap, but I read an interesting article in May 21st's Telephony magazine that I thought I would share parts of. Shannon's Law states that the amount of error-free data that could be transmitted over a channel of any given bandwidth was limited by noise.
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"A look at the new orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technologies that form the basis of 4G serves as an example. While the industry highlights the gains in speeds that long-term evolution (LTE), ultra mobile broadband (UMB) and WiMAX will bring, those capacity gains are primarily due to wider channels, not greater spectral efficiency - i.e 4G lays bigger pipes rather than increasing the amount of data flowing thro...
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Interesting. But I would like to point out that at 100mbs per a second it still was under the theoretical cap, so even with further interference it would be a vast site better than our current cap at 1.8mb/s. 🙂
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The article has various methods that they're working on to combat this as well, but it was a huge article. They're trying to develop reliable ways to use more than one radio receiver to send the information, as the theoretical limit (which we're already hitting) only applies to one receiver/transmitter.
They'll find ways around it, but it paints a more realistic picture of all the pissing contests between the fanboys of each carrier/technology. We're all at the same ceiling.
They'll find ways around it, but it paints a more realistic picture of all the pissing contests between the fanboys of each carrier/technology. We're all at the same ceiling.
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Interesting, so maybe if it sends to duel locations they can piece together a whole pie? As in if I send 12345 and site one gets 1345 and site two gets 245 then it could get a total of 12345 and put together my sent info?
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