[Satellite TODAY 06-10-13] Globalstar announced the completion of Jarvinian’s testing of TLPS, a wireless broadband technology using new carrier-grade equipment manufactured by Ruckus Wireless, a global supplier of advanced wireless systems for the rapidly expanding mobile Internet infrastructure market.

 

     The Jarvinian tests demonstrate that deploying a managed 802.11-compliant technology over Globalstar’s licensed spectrum with adjacent unlicensed ISM spectrum results in a carrier-grade service that vastly exceeds the performance of public Wi-Fi.  All tests were performed over a new 22 MHz channel within the 2.4 GHz band using carrier-grade equipment manufactured by Ruckus Wireless and existing smartphones that were enabled to operate over the new channel via a remote firmware upgrade. These tests also demonstrated how TLPS can be deployed to expand the nation’s wireless capacity to address the overcapacity of existing Wi-Fi spectrum.

 

     All tests were conducted pursuant to experimental licenses issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC is considering Globalstar’s November 2012 petition to use its licensed MSS spectrum terrestrially to support mobile broadband applications throughout the United States.