David Young writes:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:15:21PM -0800, Jim Thompson wrote:
> > > The reason this happened is becasue these rules were essentially made in
> > > secret with the DoD, the NTIA, and the WLAN industry, though the NTIA likes
> > > to say they invited industry to participate.
> >
> > Actually they did. The DoD was (ahem) "quite specific" about the
> > requirements. I think I've said so on this list before. Check the
> > archives. There is also a quite open group run by Charles Glass where
> > most of this gets hashed out.
> >
> > The FCC had promissed several of us PTP rules for the new spectrum,
> > you weren't the only one dissapointed. Trust me.
>
> Maybe Patrick or Jim knows whether DoD/NTIA compelled the FCC to certify
> the 5GHz radios by Atheros and Broadcom under FCC's software-defined
> radio (SDR) rules?
Neither Atheros or Broadcom builds (many) cards with their chipsets on
them. The OEMs/ODMs do the certification. So it would be up to the
OEMs/ODMs to certify the product as SDR.
(Both companies do generate a "here's how to get it done in very few
passes" guide.)
Here is the FCC's defintion of SDR:
Software Defined Radio. A radio that includes a transmitter in
which the operating parameters of frequency range, modulation type
or maximum output power (either radiated or conducted) can be
altered by making a change in software without making any changes
to hardware components that affect the radio frequency emissions.
Jim
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