White Spaces: The Radio Evolu5on Tuesday -‐ 09/13/11 • 3:30-‐4:15pm Brough Turner , Founder , netBlazr.com
Smart antennas and smart radios, Cogni7ve Radio and Beam Forming are on the verge of being incorporated into product. As we head toward these technologies, the opportuni7es exist for new models of service sharing and interconnec7on to deliver broadband solu7ons.
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Radio Spectrum Occupancy Urban areas, 30 MHz to 3 GHz. Above 3 GHz mostly vacant!
As measured by Shared Spectrum Company and the University of Kansas Center for Research for the
NSF National Radio Network Research Testbed (NRNRT)
Radio Spectrum Occupancy Urban areas, 30 MHz to 3 GHz. Above 3 GHz mostly vacant!
As measured by Shared Spectrum Company and the University of Kansas Center for Research for the
NSF National Radio Network Research Testbed (NRNRT)
WHITE SPACES ABOVE 3 GHZ Radio technology evolu5on, with applica5ons
Brough Turner Founder & CTO netBlazr Inc.
Outline… • Value of higher frequencies
– Limits are tech not physics; MIMO; beamforming; HF -‐> shorter WL -‐> 7ghter beams
– > 3 GHz is mostly white space in most places
• SB seeking secondary access now • Example of app at 5 GHz
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Spectrum Myth TV bands are “beach front” spectrum
• Based on legacy technology, not physics! – Travels farther thru the air – No! – Thru windows – roughly the same – Goes thru masonry – nothing works well
Free space path loss
But this equa7on encapsulates two effects: ① Actual path loss ② Receiving antenna aperture (assumed to be ½ wavelength)
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5 GHz photons go just as far as 700 MHz photons !
Seems to say more , more loss
Refrac7on and reflec7ons
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Shorter wavelength -‐ more reflec7ons, refrac7on “Mul7Path” “Ghosts” if a single receiver
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Visible light analogy Vision system (eyes + visual cortex) = extremely efficient 400-‐790 THz receiver
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Enormous knowledge base • Detailed catalog of the characteris7cs of most poten7al visible light sources
Radio receivers with MIMO
• Far from the selec7vity and sensi7vity of mammalian vision systems
• Far ahead of receivers in use when regulatory schemes were established
Mul7ple radios per chip Like CPU cores …
• 2x2 MIMO – 2008 • 4x4 MIMO – 2011 then
• 8 radios, 16 radios, …
Be1er and be1er beam-‐forming !
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Intel
Fujitsu
AMD
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Beamforming • Select among mul7ple predefined antenna elements
– Widely used with single radios (2G, 3G, Wi-‐Fi – Vivato, Ruckus Wireless)
• Adap7ve antenna arrays – Dynamically compute phase and amplitude for each antenna element
– Adapts for desired signal while also reducing interference
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Beamsteering ~2017: >500 Mbps Wi-‐Fi to ~1 Km at mass market prices ?
4x4 MIMO with 8-‐12 antenna elements
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Beamsteering ~2017: >500 Mbps Wi-‐Fi to ~1 Km at mass market prices ?
4x4 MIMO with 8-‐12 antenna elements
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Beamsteering ~2017: >500 Mbps Wi-‐Fi to ~1 Km at mass market prices ?
4x4 MIMO with 8-‐12 antenna elements
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TVWS – Beach-‐front Property? • MIMO antenna element separa7on >= ½ wavelength – 2.1 meters at 70 MHz – 21 cm at 700 MHz
• But only – 2.5 cm for 5.8 GHz Wi-‐Fi
Wavion Networks
D-‐Link DAP-‐2553
Ruckus Wireless
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Spectrum innova7on • Today’s regula7on inhibits innova7on • Technology has outrun today’s regula7on • Decades of further innova7on ahead
• “Secondary use” the best path forward – 5 GHz UNII bands; Amateur radio; TV white space
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Prospects for Change • Substan7al vested interests
– Broadcasters, cellular operators, many other exis7ng spectrum owners
• Overwhelming success of WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. – Commercial successes new interests
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Prospects for addi7onal bands • More access in 4.9 GHz – 6.0 GHz • IMT-‐Advanced candidate bands
– 2300-‐2400, 2700-‐2900, 3400-‐4200, 4400-‐5000 MHz – Would take years to clear but could be used now under secondary use protocols (like 802.11y)
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Prospects for addi7onal bands • More access in 4.9 GHz – 6.0 GHz • IMT-‐Advanced candidate bands
– 2300-‐2400, 2700-‐2900, 3400-‐4200, 4400-‐5000 MHz – Would take years to clear but could be used now under secondary use protocols (like 802.11y)
• My wish: All spectrum above 3 GHz unless specifically excepted
Applica7ons today Spectrum already available at 5 GHz • UNII-‐1: 5.15-‐5.25 GHz 100 MHz
• UNII-‐2: 5.25-‐5.35 GHz 100 MHz
• UNII-‐Global: 5.47-‐5.725 GHz 255 MHz
• UNII-‐3/ISM: 5.725-‐5.825 GHz 100 MHz -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐ 555 MHz
Dysfunc7onal Internet Access Market
Verizon $500/mo 1.5/1.5 Mbps
Cogent $700/mo 100/100 Mbps
97% buildings
3% buildings
netBlazr – “Skype for broadband” • Cloud-‐based soyware plazorm manages fiber & wireless network built by netBlazr users
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• Leverage evolving wireless tech • Freemium pricing & care models
Window-‐to-‐window
Data Center
Head-‐End 2 (State St)
Head-‐End 3 (South Sta7on)
Fiber
Fiber
Head-‐End 1 (Hancock Tower)
Head-‐End n
Fiber
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Augmenta7on service • Large companies have dual sources • Now dual source affordable for all • No bogus SLAs, but open, public on-‐line network opera7ons center with current and historical data
• Wiki documenta7on, on-‐line forum, op7onal 3rd party support
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Adop7on in one building • 10 prospects (12-‐25th floors) • 5 signed up & on-‐line • 1 install next week • 3 interested but not prepared to act
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CAPEX
$-‐ $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $600 $700 $800
netBlazr
TowerStream
ATT DSL
Verizon 4G LTE
Clearwire
Comcast BB
Verizon FiOS
$10 B Transferred to Customers
netBlazr’s opportunity
$11.9 B is today’s market for data services for target SMB’s in the US
IDC report on SMB IT Spending Forecast 12/2009
$12 B $2 B
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