News briefs

Author

Paulson, L.D.

Volume

39

Issue

6

fYear

2006

fDate

6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

21

Abstract

A US company has released a fast wireless technology that can be used to send data over the last mile - the final leg between communications service providers´ facilities and their customers. GigaBeam´s millimeter-wave technology could address the challenges found in accelerating last-mile communications. GigaBeam´s millimeter-wave technology could enable a building on an optical wide area network to wirelessly provide high-speed communications to other buildings that don´t have access to such services because they don´t have their own optical fiber connections. All buildings would need roof-mounted millimeter-wave transceivers and antennas that are in direct line-of-sight with one another

Keywords

broadband antennas; millimetre wave antennas; millimetre wave receivers; radio access networks; radio receivers; radio transmitters; transceivers; wide area networks; GigaBeam; communication service providers; direct line-of-sight technology; fast wireless technology; high-speed communication; last-mile communication; millimeter-wave technology; optical fiber connection; optical wide area network; roof-mounted millimeter-wave antennas; roof-mounted millimeter-wave transceivers; digital-content protection; encryption; speech recognition technology; wireless technology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2006.215

Filename

1642604