| Any way xxGhz wireless can replace wires? I read where they are sending messages short distances using 40ghz radio, maybe even higher frequencies.
I guess fibre-optic cable provides the greatest bandwidth, but until every cable company can switch over to that for its entire network, they will use old-fashioned wires.
Would it be practical to get rid of a lot of the cable strung along poles, by having a small relay transceiver, running at xxGhz, on a pole every x feet, relaying a signal to the next transceiver? |
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LLigetfa
join:2006-05-15
Fort Frances, ON
kudos:1 | No. Wires and/or fibers can coexist meaning you can have hundreds of them in a bundle. There is not enough spectrum for that many radios to coexist.
Latency would also be terrible.
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Also you need to power these radios, and when you look at going above 10ghz, you start to loose your links when it rains. |
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