Hello, the following is a post from stockhouse by hillclimb, seeking technical info. Mardy, he/she would like to know if you or someone else could take a stab at it & he has asked me to post it on SI. Cheers!!!
Last night I was up way too late surfing after a question came to me from the October article ( see other post a few minutes ago). This morning, I am wondering if the conclusions I reached were the wonky result of no sleep, and the attention of my young children at 3 am.
The market TA types may want to listen to the answers to this.
In the traditional academic OSI network model there are seven layers (the stack). Unix networking (TCP/IP) collapses a couple of these.
At the "bottom of the stack" though, there is always a "physical medium" layer. In wireless this is the air.
Clearly, Wi-LAN's current market is wireless in terms of the "physical medium". And they have a patent, as we all know in "WOFDM".
My first question, (finally) is:
IS WI-LAN's patent specific to and part of this bottom layer of the stack?. (I don't think so, but
i need to know for sure).
My Second question (a macro one), is: What sort of performance do we get when we put the WOFDM across other radio frequency bearing medium infrastructures ( say cable tv) ?
My third question (a micro / nano one), If one reads some of SUN's java, java vm and Motorola's java chip literature, one realizes that at this very low level they are, on a wafer, thinking about using tcp/ip to talk between cpu's (i.e. network 'arcs' that are tiny), does WOFDM have some yield at this scale (too)?
If the responses to these questions are deeply EE technical, please feel free to write into my inbox.
I am not an EE so please be gentle ( small words).
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