Increase Capacity by 1000 Times?
The above link goes to an article in Business Week (thanks Alex Rusnak) regarding a new technology that may revolutionize last-mile access between end users and cell towers. In essence, it will allow for extremely high data rates and unprecedented reliability. I’m still a bit unsure as to how this technology (DIDO - distributed input, distributed output) is so significantly different from general spatial multiplexing using MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) technology. If anyone has any thoughts about it, please do comment.
Even if you’re not well versed in wireless communications, the above story is quite inspiring, and is certainly worth a read (in fact, it hardly goes into the engineering detail of the technology). Steve Perlman (Columbia guy!) is trying to revive the original paradigm of Silicon Valley: inventing. Perhaps my favorite part of the piece:
Venture capitalists have succumbed to funding Internet eye candy like social networks and coupon services at the expense of breakthrough inventions. And yet a few people out there—him, for instance—are still willing to do the whole blood, sweat, and tears thing. “People have decided they don’t want to invent anything new anymore,” Perlman says. “To hell with them.”
It’s a very promising technology from an inventor and entrepreneur who simply loves trying to create. He wants to set trends rather than follow them, which is certainly a recipe for success; but obviously it comes with time and energy that you must be willing to put forth.
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