xMax Cognitive Radio System Brings Hope to Rural Broadband

With the concept of mobile broadband proving more troublesome than previously thought, with caps on its usage all over, with the speeds at which users reach those caps increasing…it's clear that some technological solutions are required to help users get more out of their mobile broadband experience.

xG Technologies' xMax Cognitive Radio System may very well go some of the distance in making the mobile broadband experience better for all concerned.

xG Technologies' new xMax Cognitive Radio System was demonstrated earlier today for a group of rural telecommunications executives, who piled into a moving vehicle near the xG Technology facilities near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. During the trip, they were asked to bring out their smartphones and tablets and access the Internet, which they were able to do while using neither commercial cellular connection nor capacity from their own data plans.

The xG Technology system allows xMax Cognitive Radio System equipment to work with smartphones, tablets and similar devices to provide a broadband connection through a free, unlicensed spectrum, and therefore also crowded and packed with interference.

But the multi-antenna system used in the xMax systems allowed both better range and better reliability in the connection. All this was done without adding further burden to already-overtaxed 3G and 4G networks.

In fact, xG Technology projects that by early 2013, their xMax systems will be commercially available and able to deliver a connection so powerful that it can handle an EoIP philosophy, which stands for the awe-inspiring and vaguely chilling projection of Everything over Internet Protocol.

But the problem seems to be one of funding, as xMax network trials have already been undertaken in Lewisville, Ark., as well as MacClenny, Fla., meaning that rollouts have been slow and dependent largely on sufficient quantities of xMax equipment being available for use in the first place.

This is what likely leads to demonstrations in the first place, with xMax likely looking not only set to show off its capabilities, but exhibit how useful its equipment could be to rural telecoms, who are in desperate need of an inexpensive solution to offer bandwidth to those not easily connected by traditional methods.

The rural countryside is hungry for bandwidth, and often can get it only in the form of expensive wireless methods like satellite. But a technology like this could be worth its weight in gold.

And with some support behind them from potential buyers, as well as a user base hungry for such technology, xMax's technology may be just what the doctor ordered for hard to connect rural locations.