# Presentation: 781562

## Office of Engineering and Technology

- Agenda Meeting
- January 13, 2005

## Slide 2

## OET’s Mission

**  ****Manage the spectrum and provide technical leadership to create new opportunities for innovation, economic growth, and provide consumers new choices; and to facilitate the Commission homeland security initiatives. **

## OET Accomplishments for 2004

- Broadband over Power Line
- Ultra-Wide Band
- U-NII (5 GHz Wi-Fi) - 255 MHz new unlicensed spectrum
- Unlicensed Spectrum - 3650-3700 MHz
- White Spaces - Unused TV Channels
- 70/80/90 GHz
- Network Outage Reporting

## OET Accomplishments for 2004

- SPTF Implementation
- Cognitive Radio
- Interference Temperature
- Advanced Wireless Services
- Allocations for G-Block
- Allocations for H-Block
- Government Relocation
- Part 15
- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
- Smart Antennas
- WRC Implementation

## Consumer Choices for Broadband Services

- BPL will provide the “Third” broadband pipe into the home
- 5 GHz will provide additional spectrum in both rural and urban areas for unlicensed broadband services like WiFi
- AWS (3G) will provide competitive mobile broadband services

## Unlicensed Policies Facilitate Economic Growth

**Unlicensed Policies Facilitate ****Economic Growth**

**Wi-Fi Revenue (Millions)**

## Homeland Security Initiatives

- CALEA
- Coordinate Agency CALEA Activities
- UWB
- Ground Penetrating Radar
- Through Wall Imaging
- Network Outage Reporting
- NRIC
- Commission’s post 9/11 Initiative
- Network Reliability Concerns
- Best Practices
- 800 MHz Public Safety Interference
- Interference Analysis

## Modernize the FCC and OET Technical Capabilities 

- State-of-the-Art Test Capabilities
- Theoretical Analysis
- Empirical Studies

## Modernizing FCC Technical Capabilities

- State-of-the-Art Test Facility

**Anechoic Chamber**

##  Test Capability Support the Growth of Cellular Technology and Services

- Cellular Lab

- SAR RF Safety Lab

## OET Computer Modeling Supporting 

- Development of New Technologies

**MATLAB Model for Interference to a Fixed Satellite Service Earth-Station from UWB Devices**

**Notes:**
Earth Station not drawn to scale.

The Black Dots represent the 1000 UWB devices around the Satellite Earth Station Antenna.
The Red Dots represent the 5 most significant UWB interferers (usually closest to the Direction of ES Beam)

## OET Excellence in Engineering Accomplishments

**In-house Tutorials:**
**Spectrum 101**
**Basic Wireless/Wireline Engineering for Attorneys**
**Contracted professional engineering courses:**
**Digital RF, Wi-Fi, OFDM, CDMA, ATSC Digital VSB **
**Introduction to communications technology for non-engineers**
**Industry tutorials on a variety of technical topics**
**Graduate Degree Program**

## OET Backlog Reduction

## OET Goals for 2005

- Facilitate the Growth and Development of Broadband Services and Technologies
- Identify and understand emerging technologies
- Review and modify as appropriate rules for unlicensed broadband services (UWB, WiFi, WiMax, BPL, etc.)
- Provide rule making items in the 3650-3700 MHz proceeding and the TV “White-spaces” proceeding
- Facilitate Competition Services
- Recognize and reduce technical regulatory barriers
- Provide rule makings items in the cognitive radio proceeding and any necessary steps to complete the AWS (3G) allocation proceeding

## OET Goals for 2005 

- Homeland Security Policies
- Facilitate Improvements to Network Security, Reliability and Integrity
- Work with NRIC to develop “Best Practices”
- Provide rulemaking items in the CALEA proceeding and in the Network Outage Reporting proceeding
- Modernizing the FCC
- Continue to upgrade our facilities
- Improve the speed of disposal