AJ023
join:2001-12-25
Forest Hills, NY
1 edit | reply to DaneJasper
Re: It's a joke, people.
DaneJasper: Its not a joke, however here are the issues:
UltraWideBand currently has a limited range as provided by the FCC for wireless transmission. As of today, if Broadband in Gas were to be accomplished, you would need an Ultrawideband transmitter every 30 feet under the road by the gas line itself. UWB was approved for wireless for SHORT Range transmissions. Now, if the FCC would approve increased range exclusive to broadband in gas, there could be less transmitters needed and less road ripups required. Assuming roadripups every 30 feet, the cost would be still be less than rolling out fiber since there would be no cost of fiber cables nor splicing and devices will be low cost.
According to Nethercomm "Broadband-in-Gas delivers unmatched levels of connectivity by making use of Ultra Wideband technology to wirelessly broadcast information in a way that is both safe and reliable by using the private spectrum isolated within natural gas pipelines."
Since they use "private spectrum", and since UWB by nature is NOT private spectrum since you are using pulses over all the frequency bands, testing would need to be done to see if there is any signal leakage outside and to what maximum poweroutput you can put in the gas line. Thorough testing would need to be done with wireless signals around a gas line using the various gas line materials in place. Newer gas lines are not made of metal, but I would gather a PVC or other composite material. So there are all sorts of complications in the mix.
Could such potentially be doable? Its definitely worth investigating because the natural gas line is yet another pipe that is in the home that travels all over. We already have testing of Powerline Broadband. And now the gas companies also will be able to experiment with their OWN version of broadband.
Between Powerline Broadband and Broadband in Gas technology, Broadband in Gas is more plausible because it is essentially for all practical purposes wireless Ultrawideband but just confined to the area of the natural gas line so you have a consistent path.
The Broadband in Gas senario allows for the transmission path that one would NOT be able to get with the regular airwaves and also because its more isolated, it may be able to get provisions for more range as well.
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