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The Wireless marketplace has many segments or verticals, but the two largest categories are indoor and outdoor.
Indoor wireless consists of various access technologies typicallyWi-Fiand cellular small cell.
In the outdoor segment there are more uses cases and hence more vertical alignments.
A smaller but also important outdoor access technology is the Fixed Wireless Access market.
These systems can support connection capacities as high as 10Gbps full duplex.
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FCC and other regulator domains allow these high powers as the use of these bands requires a geographic license.
Typically, the regulator will specify a maximum power output and a maximum antenna gain.
Adding those two together gets you to the EIRP allowed.
The logic is simple a higher gain antenna has a narrower beam reducing rf pollution.
All of these deployments require strict Line of Site between nodes.
The newest technologies that are being used for this utility are based in the 60GHz band.
This band has several attractive qualities, and some limitations.
The Good it is license free, meaning deployment can be done almost instantly.
The band is commonly assigned around the world with up to 14GHz of spectrum available.
More spectrum then all the lower bands combined.
The Less Good like all microwave systems, the higher the frequency the shorter the range.
In 60GHz there is an additional range limitation oxygen absorption.
The O2 molecule is just the right size to absorb 60GHz radiation.
This is an additional limitation on the ranges that can be achieved in the 60GHz band in outdoor deployments.
Another benefit for using 60GHz indoors lies in the absence of interference.
Right off the bat you get plentiful spectrum to support massivedatarates.
Further, two factors reduce the possibility of self-interference – channel availability and the inherent short range of 60GHz.
The remaining barrier to this approach is the LoS requirement.
This barrier has now fallen.
Drywall, wood and glass can all be blasted through with a properly designed system.
Where would you use it?
The use cases for such a system are limited only by ones imagination.
Exhibition halls are perfect examples of venues that would benefit from a wireless backbone system.
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