Cisco Praises House Effort on Upper 5 GHz
Cisco Government Affairs Director Mary Brown lauded House lawmakers for beginning to convene committee meetings with the Department of Transportation, the FCC and NTIA on the upper 5 GHz band, much of which is reserved for intelligent transportation technology. The…
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first meeting happened last week (see 1505270044). "There are complex technical issues presented by two different systems sharing a band of spectrum, particularly when one of them -- transportation -- provides a safety-of-life technology," Brown told us. "The resolution of those technical issues requires strong collaboration from the agencies as they decide what evidence they will need to evaluate, whether one or more of them needs to do testing, and how to reach consensus on the ultimate question of whether unlicensed [use of the spectrum] can in fact share the band. Ensuring that the agencies are working closely together is part of the oversight function of the committee, and Cisco is grateful for the committee’s attention to these issues." Brown said Wi-Fi is, of all unlicensed technologies out there today, "by far and away the 'workhorse' of the Internet" and "Cisco remains confident that unlicensed sharing with transportation uses can be made to work -- both to make good on improvements in life-saving technology, but also to improve access to Wi-Fi." Cisco has begun working with automotive stakeholders to test the upper 5 GHz band to see if it can be shared for unlicensed use.