Beams as an alternative for the fiber optics
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Asides from the WiMax technology, there’s another alternative to replace conventional networks based on fiber optics: Blasting beams of data through free space. Speeds from 1 to 10 Gigabits per second. Even entire movies could be transmit within a snap time. For instance, Red Eye, the last Wes Craven’s movie ― and considered as the most shared on the Internet movie at current time ―, could be downloaded in less than 10 seconds (about an hour in DSL mode). This idea looks simply gorgeous. Companies exploiting it use the regular wireless band frequencies, those actually accepted by the FCC. But it’s getting more and more crowded.
The Virginia start-up GigaBeam distinguishes itself by exploiting a different span of frequencies: higher frequencies. They already set several networks in metro area, the Trump Towers, on the Dartmouth College and Boston University campuses, and some San Fransisco areas.
That’s working like a charm, without any problems of interference, without the tight beams of data boing boing each other, so without flow interferences, claims Jonathan Well, GigaBeam’s director of product development, to Technology Review magazine.
The FCC last year approval of higher frequencies networks makes GigaBeam confident in developing its technology, which can spread its signal up to a 10-miles range. At least when it doesn’t rain, the major factor that greatly affects the transmission range.
Feb 28, 2006 | By Nuno
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