Technologist and serial entrepreneur Steve Perlman on Wednesday announced his new company, Artemis, and demoed its pCell technology. pCell technology “consistently delivers full-speed mobile data to every mobile device concurrently, regardless of how many users are sharing the same spectrum at once,” he claimed. The theory is legitimate, but “you certainly do not have the whole network’s capacity available to an unlimited number of users,” said Philip Solis, a research director at ABI Research.
I agree with Phil and go a step further: there are multiple paths to achieve desnification of networks. Theoretical work exploring building wide area networks to the extreme of doing away entirely with macrocell base stations, instead using tiers of small cells and self-backhaul were proposed over 14 years ago. To make SDWN. Smart Distributed WBB Network, architectures posible requires a combination of capabilities knitted together: Seamless multiple-carrier band. Availability of a mix of spectrum to achieve long range and dense packing of netowrks. Self-measurement of the network by each subscriber and network device tha tis involved as a network element - necessary to achieving non-interference. As Phil pointed out, any local/personal cell must be interconnected with a broader network. There is a logic to the limited sketch Artemis has made public, however, it cannot be as limited as personal cells or as simple as the LTE personal node devices. The logic revolves around the '80:20 rule' - studies have shown that approximately 80% of content is local or time limited within 20 days of publication. That makes storing of about 50% of content at nodes within a local 'sea of cells' and subscriber devices feasible. However, that makes the task involve tiers of devices used in a coordinated way.
It does come back to the basic need for any advanced network topology scheme being sold first to network operators who have an inherent bias against a distributed network approach.
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Artemis Shoots for Wireless Networking Breakthrough
Posted by: Richard Adhikari February 19, 2014 02:07 PMTechnologist and serial entrepreneur Steve Perlman on Wednesday announced his new company, Artemis, and demoed its pCell technology. pCell technology “consistently delivers full-speed mobile data to every mobile device concurrently, regardless of how many users are sharing the same spectrum at once,” he claimed. The theory is legitimate, but “you certainly do not have the whole network’s capacity available to an unlimited number of users,” said Philip Solis, a research director at ABI Research.
It does come back to the basic need for any advanced network topology scheme being sold first to network operators who have an inherent bias against a distributed network approach.