EC awards Glasgow 'ultra-broadband' funding
Ultra-high capacity wireless broadband could be on the way, thanks to a three-year £3m European Commission-funded project led by Glasgow University.
The Innovative ultra-BROadband ubiquitous Wireless communications through terahertz transceivers (iBROW) project will involve universities and private-sector companies from the UK, France, Germany and Portugal including Alcatel-Lucent.
Experts believe that by 2020, wireless data rates in the range of tens of gigabits per second will be required to prevent bottlenecks but that this isn’t possible using the frequency spectrum of current wireless systems.
Without new forms of wireless data transfer which operate at frequencies above 60GHz - and up to 1THz - there could be a significant bottleneck in the rates of delivery available to wireless devices.
Dr Edward Wasige, senior lecturer in electronic and nanoscale engineering at Glasgow University said: ‘To date, there have been no suitable technologies for generating and detecting higher frequency signals in the hundreds of gigahertz - those that are low cost, compact and can be set in a mobile handset, have high efficiency and are low energy consuming so could operate from a battery.
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