WCA May 1996 Meeting
The May meeting of the Wireless Communications Alliance (WCA) took place Tuesday, May 21, at Hewlett-Packard in Santa Clara.
The WCA, a nonprofit corporation, is dedicated to the mutual benefit of area companies and organizations involved in wireless communications technologies.
Professor Bob Brodersen, UC Berkeley, presented: "Recent Results of The InfoPad Project".
This research effort is investigating the issues involved in accessing multimedia data from high-speed backbone networks by a low cost, wireless terminal, called the InfoPad. The complete system is now operational and was described. The radio architectures of the next generation low power CMOS radio implementations were presented along with the recent test results. Lessons learned and future directions for the project were covered.
Fernando Nocedal, Senior Vice President of Vitacom spoke on: "VSAT Networks".
The presentation provided a general update on the status of VSAT technology and its applications. Topics included the renewed interest in SCPC-DAMA systems and the global reach that VSATs have achieved in the recent years. A view of the impact that satellite communications have had in the development of telecommunications in Latin America was presented.