During the dot.com era, telecommunication companies deployed a vast amount of high-speed fiber networks. But it was not easy to link these fiber networks to corporate LANs. A new technology from Lihue, Hawaii-based Loea, promises to change this, according to this CIO Magazine's story, "Air Speed."
Loea's wireless technology uses high-frequency radio waves to transmit data point-to-point at a speed of 1.25Gbps. The technology is based on arrays of low-noise amplifiers developed to let military aircraft see through fog.
At the center of a so-called virtual fiber network are transceivers that resemble satellite TV dishes. The transceivers must have line of sight, but they work through windows, so they can be placed inside buildings. And the system offers 99.999% weather reliability.
During the next few months, Loea plans to crank up the data transmission speed to 10Gbps. Fast transmission rates will enable voice and video over IP as well as streaming HDTV.
Of course, it won't come up cheap.
Two transceivers currently cost $65,000, but Lou Slaughter, president and CEO of Loea, anticipates a price of $20,000 by 2004.
And there is an additional problem: the frequencies used are only available by the US. government -- at least for now. Check the Regulations & License information from Loea for additional details.
Source: Megan Santosus, CIO Magazine, February 15, 2003 Issue
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