Redline Exec Shares Details on TV White Spaces Offering

There seems to be no end to the different ways TV white spaces broadband wireless equipment can be engineered. The latest offering to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission for unlicensed use in vacant TV broadcast spectrum comes from Redline Communications and it’s designed primarily for industrial applications.

Redline Associate Vice President of Product Marketing Duval Yeager said the offering supports up to 27 Mbps per single 6 MHz TV channel but can support up to 162 Mbps if multiple TV channels are available. The total bandwidth available from a single Redline remote radio can be shared by thousands of individual devices, Yeager said. He noted, however that “because our focus is industrial the numbers are usually around 80 to 100.” Yeager also noted that some farms are wirelessly connecting numerous devices and the Redline equipment should appeal to them.