WiMax threatens Department of Defense radars, officials say
Note: I am surprised that the WiMax operators got spectrum in the middle of DOD space. Well I am glad they agree that both gov and commmercial needs to work together to share the space.
The wireless industry views WiMax as the next big thing, a technology with great promise to deliver broadband to homes and offices less expensively than wired connections. But proliferation of the new commercial long-range wireless systems could cause problems for Defense Department radar systems, which operate in the same frequency bands, top DOD officials said at the ACEA DOD Spectrum Summit Dec. 6.
White House and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) officials said commercial wireless systems present opportunities and challenges for DOD, adding that the United States needs to find ways to share frequencies.
Ron Jost, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for command, control, communications, space and spectrum in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, agreed that DOD needs to find ways for its systems to coexist and share spectrum with commercial products but added that such an approach is much more difficult internationally.
Badri Younes, DOD’s director of spectrum management, said the de facto international WiMax frequencies are at 3.5 GHz, in the middle of a swath of spectrum used by DOD land-based, shipboard and aircraft radar systems. At home, the Federal Communications Commission has allocated spectrum between 3.65 and 3.70 GHz on an unlicensed basis to wireless Internet service providers for broadband services.
Ron Jost, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for command, control, communications, space and spectrum in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, agreed that DOD needs to find ways for its systems to coexist and share spectrum with commercial products but added that such an approach is much more difficult internationally.
Badri Younes, DOD’s director of spectrum management, said the de facto international WiMax frequencies are at 3.5 GHz, in the middle of a swath of spectrum used by DOD land-based, shipboard and aircraft radar systems. At home, the Federal Communications Commission has allocated spectrum between 3.65 and 3.70 GHz on an unlicensed basis to wireless Internet service providers for broadband services.
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