Re:WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (2014)
by Robotbeat on Sunday April 05, 2020 @02:50PM
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One terminal (which has beamforming capability on both ends with hundreds of elements) can connect to multiple satellites with the same frequency band.
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Re:WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (2014)
by namibj on Sunday April 05, 2020 @03:46PM
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Oh sure, that's a massive effect. It's just that for a single p2p link, there'd be at most minimal benefit from MIMO. As soon as there are either multiple satellites or multiple user terminals (or dare both), i'd expect nothing worse than the bandwidth scaling with the square root of the antenna count.