WCA June 1999 Meeting
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Terry Young , Marketing Director, Telecompetition, Inc. , San Ramon, CA is shown here during her presentation: "LMDS and the Broadband Access Market"PDF File - Right mouse button, save as file to your PC desktop and then read.
Local Multipoint Distribution Systems (LMDS) and other fixed wireless technologies are rapidly being deployed in the U.S. and will soon offer customers new choices in high speed data and broadband access. This presentation focused on LMDS and how it plays in the overall broadband access market. An overview of LMDS and the recent spectrum auctions were provided along with LMDS services such as data broadcast, video streaming and VPN. An analysis of broadband access market dynamics and forecasts for U.S. Markets was presented.
Dick Laine, Harris Microwave Communications Division, Redwood City, CA, is shown above accepting a small gift from Al Juodikis, the WCA President, following Dick's presentation : "What's up with Ultra Wideband (UWB) Technology - Part II"
May's WCA talk by Dewayne Hendricks ("Part I"), on issues affecting this revolutionary new class of wireless devices, challenged the FCC's "outdated 'Comm Act of '34' regulatory model that channelizes RF spectra as the major stumbling block to wireless' growth into the millennium". In his talk, Dick complemented Dewayne's presentation by describing UWB technology wherein each of tens of thousands of collocated unlicensed wireless signals indistinguishable from noise could underlay existing 30-2000 MHz FCC and NTIA-licensed spectra. This multitude of extremely low power UWB signals are separated not by RF channels, but (not unlike spread-spectrum) rather with precise time-modulated code synchronization between transmitters and receivers.