Late last year, FCC approved Spectrum Bridge's database service and KTS Wireless' device for operations in the TV White Space in Wilmington, NC. This comes after some months of uncertainty over whether there will be any unlicensed white space at all ! Although that danger seem to have been averted, the exact bands which will be made available for unlicensed use still remains unclear.
The KTS Wireless device is stated to operate at only 1.5-3.1 Mbps for a 6 MHz channel and does not seem to use any of the emerging white space standards. Primary applications right now are video surveillance, public safety and wireless Internet. While this will provide a proof-of-concepts for the database-backed spectrum use regime, the real test will be when many different devices operate through the use of many different database providers.
Meanwhile the WiFi Alliance is not too happy about TV White Space being called Super Wifi !
The KTS Wireless device is stated to operate at only 1.5-3.1 Mbps for a 6 MHz channel and does not seem to use any of the emerging white space standards. Primary applications right now are video surveillance, public safety and wireless Internet. While this will provide a proof-of-concepts for the database-backed spectrum use regime, the real test will be when many different devices operate through the use of many different database providers.
Meanwhile the WiFi Alliance is not too happy about TV White Space being called Super Wifi !
