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Archive for the 'Millimeter Band' Category

NextPhase + GigaBeam Deliver SoCal Biz Nets

Posted by Sam Churchill on November 26th, 2007

NextPhase Wireless, a nationwide developer of WiMAX-ready networks, and GigaBeam, a company providing “wireless fiber optics”, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which will serve as the basis for a Joint Venture to provide 70/80 GHz networks in Los Angeles and Orange counties, in Southern California.

NextPhase says its GigaBeam’s WiFiber links will enable [...]

EZ Wireless Deploys 60 GHz for DOJ

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 23rd, 2007

BridgeWave Communications has announced they have deployed Gigabit Ethernet wireless links to enable faster speeds at lower costs for the State of Oregon’s Judicial Department.
The Oregon Judicial Information Network (OJIN) traditionally linked 70 remote sites to its network backbone using a multitude of traditional leased-line T1s.
Network expansion from applications like public Internet kiosks [...]

Alvarion for Argentina’s First Mobile WiMAX

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 10th, 2007

Alvarion today announced that it was chosen to deliver Ertach Argentina’s first Mobile WiMAX solution for trial in South America.
Alvarion’s 802.16e 4Motion solution will be tested and then likely deployed in the city of Rosario, targeting small businesses and corporate users with fixed and nomadic broadband, as well as advanced voice services.
The deployment [...]

Gigabit Wireless in LA

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 11th, 2007

NextPhase Wireless, a next-generation wireless connectivity provider, today announced that it intends to begin offering select NextPhase customers in Los Angeles with a specialized wireless services plan providing for high capacity wireless broadband connectivity at speeds of up to one Gigabyte per second (the equivalent of 647 T1 lines or 1,000 DSL connections) using GigaBeam’s [...]

Hot Chips Does Multicore & 60 GHz

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 21st, 2007

The Hot Chips Conference, an annual show and tell for cutting edge hardware designers like as IBM, Intel and AMD, is being held at Stanford University this week. It featured multi-processor cores from startups and ultra high-speed wireless.
Beaverton, Oregon-based Ambric and Santa Clara based Tilera are just two of many new processor startups using novel [...]

FiberTower to Backhaul Sprint WiMAX

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 1st, 2007

FiberTower (First Avenue Wireless), said Wednesday it will provide wireless backhaul services from cell site to switch, in seven of Sprint’s initial Mobile WiMax launch markets.

Under the terms of the agreement, FiberTower will deploy commercial ethernet services, which the company said is a first for any mobile backhaul provider. Financial details were not disclosed.

FiberTower is [...]

Broadband Wireless — Hello Goodbye

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 19th, 2007

You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello, hello
I don’t know why you say goodbye
I say hello
- Hello Goodbye

Free Press released a new report that warns of the health of America’s Internet.
The report, “Shooting the Messenger,” (pdf) urges policymakers to focus on the problems that have caused America to fall behind the rest of the world [...]

SiBEAM Goes 60 GHz

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 27th, 2007

Startup SiBEAM today revealed its new WirelessHD chipset, designed to “make wireless multi-gigabit throughput a reality”, in the home.
SiBEAM’s operates in the 60 GHz or ‘millimeter-wave’ unlicensed band, with 7 GHz of frequency bandwidth. Technology competitor UWB operates from 1.5 to 7.5 GHz, while 802.11n uses one or two 20 MHz-wide channels (generally in the [...]

Millimeter Gigabit Gets Competition

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 14th, 2007

BridgeWave Communications today announced a line of 100Mbps wireless links that can be upgraded in the field to full Gigabit Ethernet speeds. Designed for network operators and enterprises, the 18-to-38GHz FE80U and FE80XU offerings provide virtually unlimited frequency re-use in the 80GHz licensed spectrum to support a wide variety of metropolitan applications. The FE80U and [...]

Routers in Space

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 16th, 2007

What do you get when you combine a high school library, an intercontinental ballistic missile, and a machine that makes sexy underwear? The answer is scheduled to blast off into space tonight.
– NPR, April 16, 2007

A Chinese navigation satellite was launched early Saturday, the second satellite in less than a week. The Beidou-2 satellite is [...]