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Company officials said that Show My White Space application accesses the same Spectrum Bridge (
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The TV white spaces availability varies significantly across the country, company officials said. Therefore, the application allows users to determine exactly how much TV white spaces bandwidth is available based on their current location.
“Our iPhone (
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The TV white spaces devices are expected to hit the market in 2010, enabling users to leverage the application to find available frequencies. Company officials said that users can use the frequencies to deliver high-speed Internet connections to their smartphones, netbooks and laptops; extend range and range and reliability of home and enterprise Wi-Fi networks.
In addition, users can also power new long-range cordless phone and video systems, create whole-house media distribution and many other innovative new bandwidth intensive applications.
Company officials said that wireless communications network can also be created for a broad-range of enterprise and industrial applications such as smart grid, smart city, telemedicine and other advanced mobile internet applications
Spectrum Bridge’s Universal Spectrum Access solution creates a next generation network architecture that makes more spectrum available for wireless applications. The company said that USA leverages their “leadership in secondary spectrum markets, spectrum management, and database driven dynamic spectrum allocation.”
The company has deployed the world’s first TV white spaces network and created ShowMyWhiteSpace.com, which is a source for TV white spaces mapping and information.
“Spectrum Bridge’s mission is to help public and private network operators solve critical spectrum constrains by making more spectrum, more available, to more people,” said Stanforth.
Anshu Shrivastava is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anshu’s articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
Kelly McGuire