One of the useful government departments, the CSIRO, has "told the Senate Select Committee into the National Broadband Network that its technology — now in prototype stage— could save $5 billion from the proposed network’s cost."

"CSIRO’s Dr Alex Zelinksy says the technology could potentially offer speeds of 100Mbps and would require 30MHz of the analogue TV spectrum that is scheduled to be vacated in the next few years. Its backhaul component also provides for 10Gbps throughputs at distances of up to 50km"

I would LOVE to know how they get 10Gbps of backhaul in 30MHz. There must be some funky modulation going down.

"Using the Griffith, NSW as a model, it projects that a 100Mbps 3G/LTE deployment to that town would require 31 base stations and a WiMAX deployment some 23 base stations—while the CSIRO access solution could employ just two."

That is impressive but i'd like more information on their testing criteria.

That sounds like a much better solution than running fibre to every house in the country. And would save disurpting every street in the process.

haha CSIRO trying to get their fingers in on the pie. Wireless will never replace cabled services....heres hoping they dont run with wireless in my neighborhood and put the fibre in the too hard basket!

4wdKing wrote:haha CSIRO trying to get their fingers in on the pie. Wireless will never replace cabled services....heres hoping they dont run with wireless in my neighborhood and put the fibre in the too hard basket!

Actually the CSIRO developed some of the technologies integrated in 802.11 standards. They're currently engaged in lawsuits regarding patent violation by freeloading chip manufacturers. I think they've settled with HP, not sure about the status of the rest of the cases.