Steve Perlman’s white paper explains “impossible” wireless tech. People have called Steve Perlman’s new wireless technology impossible.
Today, he’s releasing a white paper that aims to show how it can really work. Perlman’s “distributed input distributed output” technology, or DIDO, allows each wireless user on a network to use the full data capacity of shared spectrum simultaneously with a bunch of other users. It does so by eliminating interference between users sharing the same spectrum. OnLive founder wants to revolutionize wireless with DIDO technology. You may know Steve Perlman as the man behind OnLive, but it's looking increasingly foolish to think the California entrepreneur is all about games these days.
WebTV may be a thing of the past, but Perlman's company Mova provides advanced facial capture software to big names in Hollywood, and on June 4th, he told students at Columbia University that his incubator Rearden had developed a groundbreaking new approach to wireless technology. That last one's quite the claim, and details were scarce in June, but today the company's ready to explain how it will "completely transform the world of communications" with a little something called DIDO. DIDO stands for Distributed Input Distributed Output, and there's a reason that word "distributed" is repeated twice -- basically, what Perlman is imagining is peer-to-peer, ubiquitous Wi-Fi. Sources: Steve Perlman, DIDO White Paper. Distributed-Input-Distributed-Output (DIDO) Wireless-A New Approach to Multiuser Wireless.