Tech Companies Press for Sharing of 60 GHz Band
Representatives of Intel, Meta Platforms and Qualcomm met virtually with FCC Office of Engineering and Technology staff to offer their take on revised rules for radars in the 60 GHz band (see 2110180062). “Even in the most conservative test configuration,…
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three communications links can operate in three adjacent channels within the 57-64 GHz band with minor impact on latency performance,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 21-264. Operations under standard 802.11 ad/ay “have several attributes, like channelization and channel sensing, that radar operations lack that allow for successful co-existence of multiple communications links operating at the same time,” the companies said: “Higher power radar operations, as proposed in the NPRM, may occupy the entire 57-64 GHz band without any sharing mechanism.”