As we all desperately claw after more bandwidth to fill our quenchless thirst for information , there may yet be an oddly affordable solvent ; a simple piece of circuitry and software that can double bandwidth in the nictitation of an eye .
Astartup outta Stanfordclaims it can do what nobody has yet get by : both commit and receive data point on the same tuner frequency . Bingo , double the bandwidth . But how does it do work ?
Called ‘ full - duplex radio ’ , the proficiency essentially attempts to solve an long time - old radio set communication job known as ego - interference , reports Technology Review . Radios both send out and receive data , but send off signals are way warm ; seek to find data on the same frequency as the sent signal is screwed up by the fact the radio picks up its extroverted signaling there , too . That ’s why practically all devices — smartphones , Wi - Fi routers , you name it — vomit up out data on one frequency and receive on another , or use one relative frequency and quickly switch between station and obtain .
But nowKumu Networkshas built a tour that can predict how much interference a radio receiver ’s transmitted signaling will produce , then generate a sign to scrub it out . In turn , that lead the gate open to incoming signal on the same frequence . It ’s no loose task — especially cave in there ’s so much sign bounce around these 24-hour interval , which also has to be taken into account — but the group claims not only that it ferment , but it can double bandwidth .
Perhaps unsurprisingly , they do n’t explain in too much detail incisively how it work , but they are about to embark on a project with some “ unspecified major wireless carriers ” in 2014 , which is exciting . It might not be a panacea to all out data job — in particular where dealings tends to flow predominantly in one direction , like streaming video — but for applications where stream is back and forth , this could be quite an improvement . [ Kumu NetworksviaTechnology Review ]
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