Myth #9: Wireless cannot handle ultra broadband capacities

Wireless solutions today can achieve Gigabit Ethernet (1.25Gb/s) full duplex capacities and at GigaBeam we are developing solutions that will achieve 10 times this capacity in the near term.  There are many benefits to new wireless technologies that are the sum of innovations in chipset, software and regulatory policy  improvements.

There is truth that Fiber cable can handle more capacity via DWDM technologies.  This brings to light one of the real truths of the benefit of fiber and wireless cooperating.  Each technology in its own right has a place within various applications in the telecommunications environment.  The most simple example being that Fiber Optic is typically a better long haul solution and wireless is often more desirable in last/middle/first mile applications.  There are scores of examples of cooperation between technologies, but the bottom line is that wireless can handle ultra broadband right now and the capacity reach of both wireless and fiber will increase materially in time.