Multimedia Victoria - News - NICTA's Gigabit Wireless Chip wins Next Big Thing Award
NICTA's Gigabit Wireless wins Next Big Thing Award |
| News - Friday, 3 July 2009 |
| NICTA's Gigabit Wireless Transceiver on CMOS Project has won a INNOVIC Next big Thing Award for Innovation Excellence. The Next Big Thing Award celebrates and promotes new Australian innovations with the potential to be 'the next big thing'. Victoria’s Professor Stan Skafidas accepted the Innovation Excellence Award from a field of 25 finalists and was presented by Richard Marles, Australian Government Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry. Professor Stan Skafidas led a team at the Victoria Research Laboratory of NICTA from early 2005 that developed the world's first integrated transceiver on CMOS at 60 gigahertz. It is capable of delivering up to five gigabits per second wireless transfer of data in an indoor environment - 100 times faster than today's most commonly used wireless technology. This breakthrough will transform the way information is managed and used in the office and the home of the not-too-distant future. For further insight into this innovative technology developed by Professor Skafidas visit www.nicta.com.au |
