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There are a lot of LoS wireless networks in use all over the place (at least in the US). They're only a small fraction of the wired networks, but they're still
by bradleyland 13y ago
There are a lot of LoS wireless networks in use all over the place (at least in the US). They're only a small fraction of the wired networks, but they're still important links.
For example, the City of Melbourne (Florida) uses wireless links for intra-city WAN traffic. The cost analysis versus building a fiber network was laughable. Granted, you don't get the speed and latency of fiber, but even when they built in extra software (to provide LAN nodes for latency sensitive services), wireless came out ahead.
This development won't help with latency, but more throughput is always welcome.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoThe startup I'm currently at leases space from a broadcast network in Chicago; they're using LoS microwave to throw their HD content from the plant at the building up to their broadcast antenna atop the Sears Tower.
- pedrocr 13y ago>Granted, you don't get the speed and latency of fiber I get the speed but where do you lose the latency? LoS is the shortest path and fiber is slower than speed of light so I'd actually expect latency to be lower. Wall Street low latency trading is moving to microwave to exploit this: http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/data-latency/low-latency-market-data-moves-from-fiber/240002248 http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/data-latency/low-latency-ma...
- bradleyland 13y agoI just kind of assumed it would be worse than a fiber link. Most wireless networks suffer from poor latency, but I could see where a dedicated point-to-point network could be better optimized for latency when compared to something like WiFi.