LMDS technology advances through FCC auction
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted 864 licenses to 104 bidders trying to create new markets for local multipoint distribution services (LMDS). In a move that provided more than $578 million in new funds to the US Treasury, the FCC licensed the spectrum in the 493 Basic Trading Areas (BTAs), with each BTA having a total bandwidth of 1300 MHz and accommodating two licenses granted by the FCC. The licenses can be utilized to provide high-speed Internet access, television broadcasts, video teleconferencing and toll-quality voice services to wireless customers. LDMS utilizes millimeter-wave frequencies in the 28-GHz spectrum to send and receive two-way broadband transmission in cells of around three to six miles in diameter.
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Fed Communications Commission grants 864 licenses to 104 bidders trying to form new mkts for local multipoint distribution svcs
Publication Name: Microwaves & RF
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0745-2993
Year: 1998
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Access to the Internet goes through outer space
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Scientific-Atlanta Inc. of Norcross, GA, offers the SkyRelay.IP and the Skylinx.IP systems for satellite-connectivity functions, which enable rural users to avail of higher-speed access to the Internet. Scientific-Atlanta's SkyRelay.IP and Skylinx.IP systems allow the higher-speed transmission of downstream information to terminals on earth from very-small-aperture-terminal satellite technology. The SkyRelay.IP and Skylinx.IP systems enable data-transmission rates to be as much as 1000 times quicker compared to data-transmission rates when utilizing telephone lines and 28.8-kb/s modem equipment.
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Offers the SkyRelay.IP & the Skylinx.IP satellite-connectivity syss that enable rural users to avail of higher-speed Web access
Publication Name: Microwaves & RF
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0745-2993
Year: 1998
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RFID technology puts zip in the mail
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Savi Technology of Mountain View, CA's RF-identification, or RFID, software and hardware were selected by the US Postal Service in an experimental project for the start-up of the Unit Load Tracking proof-of-concept installation system. The US Postal Service's Unit Load Tracking system will handle the movement of mail containers from a hub-and-spokes facility to its distribution and processing centers. The Unit Load Tracking system requires the installation of sorting processes and robotic tray-loading systems with Savi Technology's wireless RF equipment.
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Has its RFID software & hardware selected by the US Postal Svc in the experimental start-up of the Unit Load Tracking sys
Publication Name: Microwaves & RF
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0745-2993
Year: 1998
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