News Station Films Segment on Rappaport's Research

On Wednesday, January 27, 2010 San Antonio's KSAT-12, a news affiliate for ABC-TV, visited Prof. Rappaport's lab to film a segment on cutting-edge research in wireless communications at UT. Here at UT-Austin, electrical engineering researchers are developing prototype chips (no bigger than a fingernail!) operating at 60GHz to wirelessly send billions of bits of data each second. Prof. Rappaport and his students showcased their wireless test chips to news producer Brian Alonzo and chief meteorologist Steve Browne. Rappaport and his students demonstrated chips fabricated for 60GHz, a state-of-the-art measurement system to test and measure the chips, and a high-speed radar system that measures how 60GHz wireless signals travel inside homes, classrooms, libraries, and offices. As PhD student Felix Gutierrez said, "The world of wireless is changing like never before. The next generation of wireless devices will operate at 60GHz and are projected to be hundreds of times faster than WiFi and stream high definition content and libraries of information at unprecedented speeds. No longer will we need to carry bulky storage media like textbooks or DVDs; rather, we will wirelessly beam that information from an access point instantly." The KSAT-12 news segment aired March 1, 2010 and can be viewed here.