[BC] aMax

[Bryan King]

Thoughts?
Bryan King
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A new wireless communications technology that symbiotically rides on 
existing public broadcast radio frequency waves could revolutionize the 
way we could connect to the Internet or provide broadband access to 
remote areas that are too expensive to be served by cable or present-day 
data-transmission technologies.

This latest innovation in broadband communications, is a "discrete" 
radio-frequency-based data transmission system that leverages 
traditional television, radio and pager systems bands without ever 
interfering with them.


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The new system effectively extends what was thought possible until now, 
extending our ability to deliver data at lower cost and over greater 
distances than existing technologies.

The new technology may also come to be appreciated for its non-harmful 
effects on humans. The new radio-based approach may in fact spare us 
quite a few health risks (nobody ever talks about this side of things) 
which are instead a constant factor when we deal with today's popular 
very high-frequency transmission bands, like the ones used by mobile 
phones and other wireless transmission systems.

Overall, the advantages offered are then not only the fact that the 
public radio spectrum can be stretched in its capacity while not 
requiring the use of additional frequencies, but also the fact that at 
the lower frequency bands in which this new technology works data can 
travel much farther while having greater ease to pass through buildings 
walls and physical barriers than other existing competing wireless 
technologies.

Long range and high-speed are two of the key characteristics of xMax, a 
cutting edge radio-waves-based broadband solution which appears to be 
even better than Flash-OFDM 
<http://www.mobileinfo.com/3G/Beyond3G_FlashOFDM.htm>, an alternative 
broadband system approach for remote and rural areas.

As a wireless data distribution system, xMax promises a reach of over 
40-square miles while being able to serve between a minimum of a few 
hundred users to a theoretical maximum of a thousand or more.

xMax leverages a unique approach to data distribution via radio 
frequencies by embedding a very weak signal within the selected radio 
carrier band. The signal used is so weak that it cannot be easily 
picked-up by traditional radio antennas.

By using unique receiving units equipped with special filters, 
xMax-enabled devices can detect and receive the weak radio signal 
embedded in the radio wave without ever interfering or disturbing the 
main carrier.

Though prestigious academics like Princeton University Professor 
Schwartz have declared xMax not a very efficient way to send data over 
the airwaves, they also concluded that the results that can be achieved 
are indeed effective.

Obviously such a technology could represent a boon to many Internet 
service providers and telecom operators who would be able to offer and 
utilize this cost-effective technology to serve wireless broadband to 
rural and geographically remote areas which other competing operators 
would find too costly to cover.

Present third-generation mobile phone networks need base-stations to 
relay the signals every few miles. With xMax that can be significantly 
improved as the new technology offers a 400 to 500 percent improvement 
in range over more traditional technologies.

With WiMax 
<http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/04/27/wireless_broadband_networks_are_coming.htm> 
and Flash OFDM, which need dedicated radio frequency bands, if you they 
are set to operate at frequency ranges above 1GHz, the signal used has 
no comparable effectiveness in penetrating physical obstacles and 
building walls as well as being able to have reach greater than a few 
miles.

XG Technology <http://www.xgtechnology.com/>, the Florida-based company 
behind this revolutionary invention company behind xMax, has already 
been talking to multiple chip makers to make this new technology become 
a market reality. According to the company, xMax-enabled radio chips 
should cost $5-$6 when built in large quantities while base stations 
will be around $350,000.

Stay tuned.