Airvine Scientific, Inc.
The problem: Delivering Todays Digital World to Yesterday’s Apartments Over 20 million households in the US are in “MDU” (Multi-Dwelling Unit) buildings. Of those 20 million units, as of 2021 only 16 percent were offered Internet by the property owner. Even more of note, if the building was constructed prior to the year 2000 the…
The unlicensed V-band has been getting a lot of attention of late. The initial focus was on using it for residential broadband, but now the interest has turned to in-building wireless backbones. One of the great advantages of the V-band is that it has an enormous amount of spectrum (14 GHz in the U.S.) and…
This blog will look at the RF bands that are in common usage today to get a better idea of which services work best at which frequencies. We’ll focus on access technologies which connect users to Wi-Fi AP’s (or cellular networks) and backbone technologies that connect these AP’s back to the wiring closet and from…
The question often comes up as to why Airvine went down the path of developing an entirely new in-building networking solution when the legacy approach of using structured wiring is so well entrenched. Is a new solution really necessary? To answer that question, we must look at the dynamic nature of the modern enterprise. Be it…
We hear a lot about beamforming in the trade press, on podcasts and elsewhere, but what is it and why do you care? Beamforming involves the precise phase shifting of the elements of an antenna array to generate a very narrow beam focused in a very specific direction. The narrow beam greatly increases the gain…