The Future of wireless transfer?

[number6]

Apparently we are just a few years away from phenomenal wireless transfer rates, according to Scientists at the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at Georgia Tech:

“Our work represents a huge leap in available throughput,” Pinel said. “At 10 Gbps, you could download a DVD from a kiosk to your cell phone in five seconds, or you could quickly synchronize two laptops or two iPods.”

I'm just wondering if RED is looking ahead to how to be upgradeable to this coming technology?

The thread is here: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-07/giot-mwr071907.php

[Jeff Kilgroe]

10Gbps wireless is coming... No secret about that, it's just a matter of time. 10Gbps wired links are here now in the form of copper and fiber (this is what RED uses for its uncompressed RAW port). Still very expensive, but not any more so than when 100Mbps or 1Gbps were at this stage in the game.

All natural progression and it seems to me that by the time wireless 10G becomes practical, an updated RAW port module could be available to support it.

In addition to being able to transfer data at 10Gbps speeds, systems themselves must be able to read and write and deal with data at those speeds. Current iPods and cell phones are nowhere close. And those considering the RAW port for use with RED are currently talking about building a large RAID system, the size of a small refrigerator, to handle the 10Gbps (roughly 1.2 gigabytes per second) throughput required. So lots of things need to happen before we can download an entire DVD in a few seconds to a cell phone. It will happen someday, but we're not there yet.

[Rocco Schult]

Interesting stuff the guys at GEDC did.
I think its difficult to be open for "all that may come", e.g. I didn't find any note about the connection they use to the host. It won't be USB with all that gigabits. It would depend what kind of internal bus system RED ONE may use and if its meant to be an expandable architecture, like mini/PCI(e).
Until then we have at least USB in host and slave mode (!), so much options to think about as long as the SW supports it, without any HW mod.
Getting WiFi working for some stuff could be a nice start.

The raw port needs internal modification. Who knows what type of bus we have inside ?