Whatever happened to Australia's 10 gigabyte Wifi Chip? ANy day now? Vaporware?

[cdev]

This looked good, but now where is it?


http://web.archive.org/web/20080229011745/http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/Australia-s-10-GiFi-chip-promises-wireless-5Gbps/0,130061702,339286253,00.htm

[madires]

3 GHz bandwidth for 5 Gbit/s and a range up to 10m (LOS!) doesn't sound like a WiFi killer.

[cdev]

3 GHz bandwidth for 5 Gbit/s and a range up to 10m (LOS!) doesn't sound like a WiFi killer.

That is very short range indeed.. Inside a building might need 20 or 30 M.  Two meters is basically on the same (big) desk.

[Marco]

Hell, whatever happened to Shahriar's 32Gb/s chip

The killer application for this stuff has always been VR and VR hasn't had huge success. Having something which can only survive maybe one bounce on a good day isn't too useful for most applications. Maybe once Apple's headset launches there will be a need for superfast near-LOS communication. Though I still fail to see the advantage over just going optical.

[cdev]

If you have LOS you should be able to go miles.. and even more..into  space..with high bandwidth...

[Marco]

Generally the ISM frequencies are on sections where the atmosphere has a large dip in transparency.

[jhalar]

This looked good, but now where is it?
http://web.archive.org/web/20080229011745/http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/Australia-s-10-GiFi-chip-promises-wireless-5Gbps/0,130061702,339286253,00.htm

The research organisation (NICTA) that is mentioned in the webpage article stopped operating in 2016. It no longer exists.

[Melt-O-Tronic]

If you have LOS you should be able to go miles.. and even more..into  space..with high bandwidth...

Except for that pesky inverse square law.

[Shock]

I think you will find the current government in Australia cut funding to it either directly or indirectly in their previous term. They are up for election in a few weeks.

I don't forgive them for the lies they perpetuated about making the NBN (national fibre internet network) cheaper and better "Lets keep the decades old copper for the last few hundred meters to peoples houses" what morons.