Re: Gigabit wireless in a few years -- maybe

[Eric Gauthier <eric at roxanne.org>]

> >Gigabit radios have been available for a while now, perhaps as much as a
> >year, commercially.  Spectrum, however, is not increasing quite so fast,
> >at least under the laws of physics I obey.
> 
> I am sorry I wasn't clear, but I was talking about cost and devices similar 
> to the one that we use and sell now (the 802.11a/b/g radios).  When GIG 
> comes to this market, at this cost, you will install a wireless link if 
> possible (even if it is just while you are waiting for the fiber to be 
> installed -- or for a backup for the fiber...)

Take a look at Terabeam - www.terabeam.com.  They have gigabit radios
in the 60GHz range (unliscenced in the US).  I'm not sure about the cost,
but, in the same product line, the radio's that do OC3 are about $10k so
the gigabit ones probably aren't outrageous.

Eric :)

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