{"id":9304,"date":"2011-04-19T12:49:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T12:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/super_wifi_hotspot_gives_3_mile_range.html"},"modified":"2011-04-19T12:49:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T12:49:21","slug":"super-wifi-hotspot-gives-3-mile-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/super-wifi-hotspot-gives-3-mile-range.html","title":{"rendered":"Super WiFi Hotspot Gives 3 Mile Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/super-wifi-happy.jpg\" alt=\"super-wifi-happy.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"500\" \/>One of the absolutely most disruptive technologies I have seen is Super WiFi and although, until now, the technology has been more theory than practice, there is a grandmother in Texas named Leticia Aguirre who has lit up a <a href=\"http:\/\/education.tmcnet.com\/news\/2011\/04\/19\/5453725.htm\">hotspot<\/a> in her house with a range of three square miles &ndash; an absolutely staggering distance. Utilizing dynamic spectrum access the network shifts automatically between WiFi and a dormant digital UHF TV channel to provide the ideal coverage characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations involved in this trial are Rice University, Houston nonprofit Technology for All (TFA) and the NSF who provided a grant to incorporate super WiFi into the network.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, this September will see the second occurrence of the world&rsquo;s only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superwifisummit.com\/\">Super WiFi Summit<\/a> which will be cohosted by TMC where I am CEO and Crossfire Media where Carl Ford is a founding partner.<\/p>\n<p>If you are an investor, carrier, equipment provider, corporation, reseller or anyone who understands the massive potential of being able to &ldquo;light up&rdquo; three square miles with broadband wireless with no licensing costs or need to construct towers, you should be in Austin, Texas, September 13-15, 2011. Discounted registration is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/voip\/conference\/super-wifi\/2011\/west\/register.aspx\">available<\/a> if you act now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the absolutely most disruptive technologies I have seen is Super WiFi and although, until now, the technology has been more theory than practice, there is a grandmother in Texas named Leticia Aguirre who has lit up a hotspot in her house with a range of three square miles &ndash; an absolutely staggering distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,171,160,1732,118,174,190,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}