Nokia Networks is testing equipment for high-speed public network "bubbles"



    Last year Steve Perlman, one of the creators of QuickTime technology, and the founder of the OnLive service, announced the development of a technology that provides data transfer speeds over a wireless network three orders of magnitude higher than in a normal situation. Despite the fact that many experts were skeptical, Perlman began to work further in this direction, having founded the company Artemis Networks. The new technology is called pWave. According to the developer, this technology allows you to create small “bubbles” of network connections around gadgets in a specific place (a stadium, for example). This eliminates the need for dividing the bandwidth of the common channel into separate channels for each user. This can significantly increase the overall throughput of data transmission in public places.

    Now Artemis Networks is starting to earn the first credit of confidence of players in the wireless industry market. So, Nokia Networks signed a “memorandum of understanding” with a startup, agreeing to test the technology in public places, such as stadiums, where maximum bandwidth is required. The “bubbles” created by the company's wireless antennas are called pCells (personal cells). Theoretically, such “bubbles” will surround even devices that move.

    A spokesman for Nokia Networks said that at first the company did not believe Perlman’s statements: “We listened and said - noooo, this is unrealistic. But then skepticism was replaced by interest, and the company decided to try the antennas in work. ” Now Nokia Networks plans to test the equipment under normal load conditions and see how it all scales. If pCells will not work, Nokia Networks will test the equipment from MIT, the university has developed something similar to pCells.

    According to the head of Artemis Networks, despite the fact that so far only one company has agreed to test the equipment, the startup is close to concluding a deal with one of the largest operators. True, Perlman refused to tell with which operator he is now trying to conclude an agreement.

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