IEEE publishes White Space standard

The technology is designed to provide broadband wireless access to up to 100 km range New JERSEY, USA: IEEE publishes the IEEE 802.22 standard, a new standard for Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs), which takes advantage of VHF and UHF TV bands to provide broadband wireless access over a large area up to 100 km from the transmitter.

Each WRAN will deliver up to 22 Mbps per channel without interfering with reception of existing TV broadcast stations, using the so-called white spaces between the occupied TV channels. This technology is especially useful for serving less densely populated areas, such as rural areas, and developing countries where most vacant TV channels can be found.

IEEE 802.22 incorporates advanced cognitive radio capabilities including dynamic spectrum access, incumbent database access, accurate geolocation techniques, spectrum sensing, regulatory domain dependent policies, spectrum etiquette, and coexistence for optimal use of the available spectrum. BANGALORE, INDIA: Jim Anderson, senior VP,  Networking Components Division, LSI Corporation, says: “Indian market is an important market for us especially because of the new network build-out that is happening in the wireless infrastructure space. The company has been growing its presence in India pretty rapidly over the past few years and will continue to do so.”

The company recently divested its storage systems arm Engenio to NAS provider NetApp, so that it can increase its focus on semiconductor space.