Gizmodo | March 17, 2011 | Nick Broughall
The brilliant minds CSIRO have spent the past few years developing a new wireless technology to deliver high speed wireless internet to rural Australia. Now dubbed Ngara – an Aboriginal word from the Darug people that means ‘listen, hear and think”, the technology promises 12Mbps symmetrical speeds for six simultaneous users and is set to be demonstrated next week in Sydney.
The technology aims to take advantage of the analogue TV spectrum once analogue TV is switched off in 2013. By mounting transmitters to current TV broadcasting towers and attaching a modified modem to individual household TV antennas, Ngara makes a unique connection between the tower and the household using a patented beam-focussing technique.
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