[ExI] Wireless technology jump.

[Kelly Anderson]

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/120803-vortex-radio-waves-could-boost-wireless-capacity-infinitely
>
> "It is hard to put into words just how significant Thide’s discovery
> could be. If the vortex preserves other aspects of wireless
> communications, such as multiplexing, then in the short term we could
> be looking at a wireless spectrum that can carry 10 or 20 times as
> much data. In the long term, as our understanding of orbital angular
> momentum grows, our wireless spectrum could effectively be infinite.
> To be honest, this is such a huge twist for wireless communications
> that the full repercussions are not yet known."
>
> There are several entries by the professor who invented this trick in
> the comments along with pointers into peer reviewed papers.

Apparently, the Italians are pretty good at this radio stuff... :-)

I hope this turns out to be useful, we sure could use a lot more
bandwidth. I am suspicious of anyone selling "infinite" solutions,
however... that sounds like a bit of hype.

-Kelly