With more and more people using cellular networks, the availability of those wireless networks is dwindling. That is why Globalstar (News - Alert), a company that is no stranger to wireless and Internet usage has revealed that it will be using its spectrum satellite setup in order to increase Wi-Fi access. The company will be using Terrestrial Low Power Service (TLPS) in the endeavor and it will apparently actually lead to a higher and more secure connection than other Wi-Fi services.
This particular solution, especially if it is paired with out-of-band management (which will enhance literally any Wi-Fi offering) could potentially mean that the Wi-Fi bottleneck is no longer going to be a problem in the US. Obviously it’s a little early to tell whether or not Globalstarhas actually managed to solve the problem, but using these kinds of satellite uplinks will create a brand new bandwidth that is basically untapped at the moment.
Jarvinian is another company that has been working on TLPS and its CEO John Dooley believes that the solution is the solution for the bottlenecking problem. "Public Wi-Fi is a degrading resource. Every time we light up an application, every time someone adds a new microwave oven to an environment, every time there's a new series of uncoordinated access points, the noise floor in that public spectrum degrades, and, by extension, the amount of bits we can push degrades, too. The more we rely on public Wi-Fi, the less effective it becomes," Dooley said in a recent interview.
Globalstar has been testing TLPS for the last few months and the company believes that the service will be one that truly does make Wi-Fi that much better. An IT manager who chooses to tie this kind of service into their network alongside an out-of-band management solution, will see a much stronger network over the long haul. Using this kind of connection allows the IT manager to service and monitor the network remotely. Pairing the solutions will make for a far more reliable network connection than either solution would be by itself.
Edited by Jamie Epstein