Rice University, Houston non-profit use dormant TV channel for residential broadband
When the Federal Communications Commission worked the rules last fall unused TV channels for a new long-haul convert, wall-piercing version of Wi-Fi, Houston had resident Leticia Aguirre there is no way to know that they the nation first residential "Super Wi-Fi" hotspot would host.
"I wanted to have the Internet for a long time, but it is very expensive," Aguirre, 48, said a working grandmother and home owners, which never had a reliable Internet connection in their home.
Thanks to the partnership between Rice University wireless communications researchers and Houston non profit technology for all (TFA) was Aguirre's home a super Wi-Fi hot-spot in this month. TFA and rice plan to add more Super Wi-Fi connections in Aguirre's neighborhood in the coming months, and with company Super Wi-Fi technology, to develop, the network type that could be racing deploying a common fixture in cities and rural areas for the 3,000 residents in East Houston rice and TFA in the next decade.
"We have federal support through the National Science Foundation to develop this technology in an open-source manner", said Rice's Edward Knightly, Professor in electrical and computer engineering, whose research group the prototype Super Wi-Fi system built, used the Aguirre. "Ultimately we want this technology develop so that it benefits the most people with access to the correct range for the correct user." "With Ms. Aguirre as our first user really shows the potential benefits for people who are underserved with traditional broadband been."
For free community in the District of East Houston, pecan Park starting knightly's research group with TFA, a Wi-Fi broadband network in 2004, Aguirre was homeowners one of the first House and a Wi-Fi hot-spot agree to host. Network, wireless-TFA, now serves a three square mile area. But Aguirre, who lives on the edge of the network, never got a good Wi-Fi signal in their home.
Aguirre said she got so frustrated with the traditional Wi-Fi, she removed the Wi-Fi antenna from home as questions TFA.
"But I need to see on the Internet, that my paychecks are deposited and other things to do," she said. "When she called me if I wanted to this attempt, it was an answer to my prayers."
Aguirre said that it is in contact with friends and family, including her three children and her five-year-old grandson pleased, with e-Mail and Skype to stay and to view religious videos online and learning more about how a computer can help in their daily lives.
The original TFA wireless network was designed as a testbed for urban "multihop" Wi-Fi technology. End of 2010 knightly's team such as the FCC was established to integrate a new grant from the National Science Foundation, Super Wi-Fi in the TFA wireless network their rules Wi-Fi for Super.
"Mrs. Aguirre was the perfect user for this because of the, we had problems with it with conventional Wi-Fi," said Ryan Guerra, a rice student, spent several months to create the Super Wi-Fi equipment that TFA wireless Aguirre's home installed. For users is the new hot spot like any other; It can be accessed with any Wi-Fi device. Behind the scenes, the network uses "dynamic spectrum access" to automatically shift between conventional Wi-Fi and not used UHF of digital TV channels for the best possible coverage.
"These super Wi-Fi technology a quantum leap to the end user, which will allow us to users on our network", will Reed, President and CEO of TFA.
"The fact that this happens in a community-wide-band setting significant also, because this technology has real potential, barriers and under-served urban and rural communities, bring," said Reed, the both as a substitute member of the FCC of Consumer Advisory Committee has served as a member of the FCC of Consumer Advisory Committee Working Group on under-served and the rural population.
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