Communication Technologies

It was while going through Peter Thiel’s CS183 class notes by http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup

What are the big things that are driving today’s technology and innovation, specifically in communication technologies

1. Wearables and their communications

2. Coming of new communication technologies. Chipsets companies are still aware of discrepancies with existing tech

• Qualcomm trying to launch LTE direct http://www.qualcomm.com/research/projects/lte-direct

  • Broadcom launching chipsets based on Wi-Fi direct http://www.broadcom.com/products/wiced/wifi/
  • BLE 4.0
  • Companies supporting NFC
  • A startup in Australia trying to disrupt telecom http://www.servalproject.org/
  • Lab called Rearden disrupting existing telecom infrastructure with pCells http://www.reardenlabs.com/

1. Bunch of companies trying to work Internet-Of-Things

2. Communication paradigm for M2M (machine to machine) technologies.

3. Peer to peer network technologies

4. Device to device communication technologies. Samsung recently came up Samsung Chord.