Steve Mensing, Editor
♦ I hate to be the bearer of bad news for fiber optic technology, but the concussive drumbeats of super gigabyte per second wireless transmission are sounding ever closer. As proclaimed for years prior to Fibrant’s 70 million dollar bust, wireless super high-speed through-the-air transmission was predicted to become the internet’s super highway of the future. The days of the fiber optic pipeline may be rapidly drawing to a close as numerous physicists once warned us. Yesterday I learned from the broadband magazine CED that in Shenzhen, China researchers working for Huawei announced they achieved a record data rate of 10.53 Gbps on the 5 Ghz wireless frequency band during trials. That’s awfully impressive. I understand other wireless high-speed internet experiments elsewhere are also yielding incredible speeds. Huawei is employing an emerging WIFI 802.11ax standard. 10.53 Gbps! Friends in India inform me that far faster speeds are possible through the air. Is Fibrant stuck in lead shoes? Technology makes yearly advances especially in the highly competitive field of internet.
Here is the CED Magazine article on Huawei’s 10.53 Gbps breakthrough:
http://www.cedmagazine.com/news/2014/05/huawei-kicks-tires-on-80211ax-with-10-gbps-trial
