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Microsoft’s SpecNet promises to search out unused wireless spectrum

Microsoft’s been toying around with hardware for thus-called white space spectrum for a while now , and it’s now back with another fairly ambitious scheme. Dubbed “SpecNet,” the hardware for this reason in actually a network of spectrum analyzers that will hunt down and map where spectrum is out there and where it’s not, and let unlicensed devices use it when it’s available. In fact, that’s still all slightly theoretical, and it does face a couple of significant hurdles. Those spectrum analyzers, as an example would cost between $10,000 and $40,000 apiece, and also you’d obviously want a lot of them for a nationwide network, although Microsoft means that they can be installation on an ad hoc basis and assigned to different areas for a particular period of time. Those interested by the finer technical details can dive into Microsoft’s full paper at the subject on the source link below.

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