InterDigital desires to extend Wi-Fi into TV white areas

InterDigital desires to extend Wi-Fi into TV white areas


Having didn't find a buyer for the corporate, InterDigital is making an enormous drive to steer its spectrum management know-how into the nascent white areas arena.

The company introduced it is collaborating with Ittiam Techniques on a system to increase Wi-Fi technology into TV White Space (TVWS) and different underneath-utilized frequency bands. Their Built-in Dynamic Spectrum Management technology is designed to harvest TVWS and different out there frequency channels to increase the data throughput of Wi-Fi devices, which often have to compete for spectrum in heavily-used unlicensed bands.

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Ittiam, based mostly in Bangalore, India, offers Wi-Fi expertise with single stream and MIMO options that power a spread of products. The Ittiam MWLAN platform gives the Wi-Fi MAC and Physical Layer for InterDigital's Dynamic Spectrum Management demonstration, which incorporates allocation and aggregation of contiguous and non-contiguous frequency channels across licensed, unlicensed and TVWS; database and sensing-assisted spectrum allocation; and extension of legacy programs resembling Wi-Fi and mobile into underneath-utilized frequency bands.

In late January, InterDigital announced a associated spectrum-harvesting collaboration with TVWS database service supplier Spectrum Bridge. The businesses said they would reveal the value of integrating Spectrum Bridge's spectrum-sharing technology with a wireless application to dynamically match bandwidth needs with one of the best out there spectrum assets. In announcing that collaboration, James Nolan, InterDigital's government vice president of analysis and development, stated, "Clever and dynamic harvesting of prime spectrum, underneath-utilized by the first licensee, is a practical approach for solving the bandwidth crunch."

InterDigital will feature its work with Ittium and Spectrum Bridge during the Cellular World Congress later this month in Barcelona.

InterDigital's current give attention to white spaces and spectrum harvesting follows a grueling months-lengthy effort to promote the company. InterDigital executives mentioned final month that they had did not find a buyer for the company but would possibly explore selling or licensing a few of its patents. The corporate initiated a strategic overview in July 2011 amid a boom in the market for mobile patents. Overall, InterDigital stated it had 19,500 patents and patent functions as of the tip of 2011.