Here at CTIA, I met with Bojan Subasic, vice president of research and development at Redline Communications, to discuss their announcement about the fast White Space Radio.
Taking advantage of their experience in OFDM, Redline Communications has been expanding their abilities to deliver over a wide range of frequencies with their Universal Wireless Transport.
Universal Wireless Transport (UWT) “is a ground-up reengineering of Redline’s award-winning backhaul networking technologies. Designed with fewer components to reduce power consumption and further increase reliability. UWT is suitable for rural or remote locations where it can be powered using alternative energy sources such as solar. One single circuit board can be configured via remote software configuration for any band within the broadest range frequency choices available. All UWT based systems are totally secure and can be remotely managed from the same network-based management systems and can receive updates and change configurations via over the air updates.”
In addition, “UWT-based Redline wireless broadband network systems supporting any frequency between 100 and 6000 MHz, can be manufactured using the same UWT platform in a matter of weeks.”
The key value of Redline’s strategy is in the ability to provide the same device for companies having to manage a number of different national anomalies. Having a single device that can be configured for multiple locations and provide a seamless throughput experience was a key point in my discussion with Subasic. Often considerable tuning has to be done when coping with delivering the data in a multivendor environment which adds to the cost of training engineers to support nuances as they deliver communications to their remote locations.
Oil and Gas has a strong history of needing wireless, but it shouldn’t be a core focus of the business. For these companies, they end up needing to build a network and it is looked at as a cost center and not as an opportunity. Most of these companies come to Redline with the goal of using unlicensed or lightly licensed spectrum.
Shortly afterwards, their implementation requests expand to include WiFi support. So the TVWS and other frequencies are used for backhaul and aggregation of essential traffic, and the WiFi is used to support the variety of devices the customers have in their hands.
Being a Canadian company, we also talked about the restriction on white space in the U.S. as being single channel - which limits the throughput to 27 Mbps, as compared to some countries that allow Redline Communication to take advantage of their MIMO solutions to get speeds up to 108 Mbps.
The use of databases and other aspects of U.S. spectrum policy is a good strategy though and Bojan made it clear he saw the policies favorably.
Redline Communications history proves it can deliver on performance no matter what the environment – their goal is to make the experience universal.
Edited by
Stefania Viscusi 
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