A mobile wireless router that can handle Wi-Fi and 3G communications seamlessly even at high speeds has been developed by Japanese electronics company NEC. The prototype router, Litebird, can be mounted on train carriages and buses. Normally cellphones and Wi-Fi cards struggle to switch between stationary transmitters when users are travelling at high speeds. But now they need only communicate with the Litebird router on the carriage, which will handle all the high-speed handovers to base stations by itself.
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