Comments on: Wireless Broadband Races to 12.5 Gbps With Microwaves

By: Breakthrough For Post-4G Communications | Innovation Toronto

Breakthrough For Post-4G Communications | Innovation Toronto — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:16:28 +0000

[...] Wireless Broadband Races to 12.5 GBps With Microwaves (gigaom.com) [...]

By: Paul Allen

Paul Allen — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:18:20 +0000

The second precipitation starts the distance for a useable signal drops precipitously. This is not technology suitable for rainy or even foggy areas.

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:57:42 +0000

Well, given that you can get up to a mile or two of range with today’s 60GHz systems with throughput of a Gbps or two, I’d think short to medium range is likely more in the hundreds of meters department. That would make it a useful fiber alternative in an urban or campus environment.

By: Change Your Life for Better

Change Your Life for Better — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:17:10 +0000

This also means that there is going to be an opportunity to create new semiconductor devices or alternative electronic devices that can be used in conjunction with this new millimeter wave technology. This is how one technology produces opportunity for another and so on. That way we can also get out of recession.

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:34:30 +0000

As others have noted and will note, this spectrum is useful only for line-of-sight applications or over a very short distance (in the same room, say). It’s still useful, but it’s not relevant to the applications considered for LTE and WiMax.

By: MultiplicationBingo

MultiplicationBingo — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:05:47 +0000

Maybe on 2010 this technology works.

By: Ram

Ram — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:03:30 +0000

I believe the range today is only 10s of meters line-of-sight with this technology.