Neul launches world's first white space radio system
03 Aug 2011
Neul, a company offering products and services for the globally emerging TV white space spectrum, today announced the launch of NeulNET. NeulNET is the first production wireless radio system that is designed to use free, high quality white space spectrum, delivering fast, reliable wireless connections over long distances.
NeulNET promises to revolutionise machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, local broadband delivery, smart meter communications and the 'internet of everything'. The NeulNET system is available to order now.
White space radio takes advantage of unused TV channels as we switch from analogue TV to digital TV. Signals in these frequencies can travel long distances and easily penetrate walls. This makes white space radio ideal for long-range applications that require wide-area connectivity.
There is up to 150MHz of high quality white space spectrum available. For comparison, typical nationwide 3G networks operate with a mere 30MHz of spectrum, and while 3G spectrum costs $bns, white space spectrum will be available free of charge.
To use white space systems must meet very stringent technical specifications to prevent interference with television equipment and wireless microphones. NeulNET is the first wireless system to meet these conditions, including the FCC's challenging adjacent channel power specification.
The NeulNET system, which includes a base station unit and portable battery powered terminal, makes it easy to create white space networks that deliver up to 16Mbps per available white space channel at a range of up to 10km.
