xMax WiFi Broadband Allows Anyone to Become a Wireless Broadband ISP

xG Technology, a mostly unknown start up company, demonstrated a new wireless broadband technology called xMax broadband last November following this wifi broadband technology’s certification by the FCC. xMax broadband is 1,000 times more energy efficient than standard WiMax, and may be used in the near future to create wireless LANs that transmit a wireless Internet signal over several miles with minimal power requirements.

During the November demonstration, xG Technology used a transmitter very similar to a hand-held, cordless telephone base station and an omni-directional antenna to transmit a 3.7 Mbit/s data stream in a 15-mile radius with only 50 mW of power. xG Technology claims that xMax broadband is capable of sending 40 Mbits/s over 15 miles, using less than 1 Watt of power.

xMax Wireless High Speed Broadband Technology

xMax handles the transmission, reception, modulation, and encoding of digital data through radio frequency, or RF. To maintain its impressively low power requirements for wifi broadband networking over long distances, xMax uses single cycle modulation to transfer bits of data. The standard approach to RF communication requires tens to hundreds of thousands of RF cycles to transmit a single bit of information, and each individual cycle requires a set amount of power to generate.

xMax, on the other hand, requires a single RF cycle to transfer a bit of information, resulting in a dramatic decrease in power requirements. xMax also operates in a lower-frequency spectrum that sees heavy use from other applications and does not require certification from the FCC to utilize.  xG Technology does not forsee any difficulty with using a heavy traffic channel, as xMax broadband does not interfere with other transmissions on the same channel because of its low power requirements and single cycle modulation.

Applications of xMax Wireless Broadband Internet Transmission

xMax promises to deliver better performance than the current industry standard, WiMax, but at a very low power. Decreasing the amount of power required to transmit high speed wireless Internet data over radio makes xMax more accessible and cheaper to maintain than WiMax.  xMax also transmits data at wavelengths and power levels that do not require a permit from the FCC to use, which means that anyone who purchases a transmitter can set up a wireless network with up to a 15 mile radius.  xG Technology  promises to make xMax transmitters available to the general public sometime in 2006. Once this new technology becomes available for purchase, xMax will enable wireless high speed Internet broadcasting by anyone who buys a transmitter. xG’s vision for this technology includes allowing anyone to become a wifi ISP with xMax wireless broadband.