Wireless Backhaul Technology Improves by Ten Fold

Australian IT News reports CSIRO has developed wireless backhaul technology capable of moving data at 10GBPS, up from the 1 gbps that is currently possible. CSIRO - The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's National Science Agency, is working with various companies to try and commercialize the breakthrough. From the article:

Microwave transmission is used to link mobile towers back to a carrier’s network where it is physically difficult or economically unviable to run fibre to the tower. 

Where current technology has an upper limit of a gigabit per second to multiple towers over backhaul, the government organisation said it could provide the 10 Gbps symmetric speeds over ranges of up to 50 kilometres.

If it works, this breakthrough could make up for the defeat of Lightsquared, which was the only new broadband competition in the U.S. in a long time.

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