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German Researchers Hit 40 Gbps On Wireless Link

Posted by Unknown on from the don't-stand-in-front-of-it dept.

judgecorp writes "German researchers from the Fraunhover and Karlsruhe institutes have achieved 40Gbps transfers over 1km using a wireless link. The new record raises the hope that point-to-point wireless could be used instead of expensive fibers in some rural broadband applications." Partially thanks to transmitting between 200GHz and 280GHz.

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  1. Re:2 obligatory questions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. How the hell is this going to fare in a real world test where a metropolis of people oversaturates the frequency?

    What part of "point to point" did you not understand?

  2. Re:2 obligatory questions by ikaruga · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1. How the hell is this going to fare in a real world test where a metropolis of people oversaturates the frequency?

    From the summary.

    ...used instead of expensive fibers in some rural broadband applications

  3. Re:2 obligatory questions by niftydude · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A 1km range is next to nothing for rural Australian

    For Texans, 1 mile is "neighbors" . . .

    . . . 100 miles is "just down the road" . . .

    . . . 1000 miles is "just down the road, aways" . . .

    Heh, I know people in the US like to think Texas is big, but the truth of the matter is that the area of the state of Texas is just under 700 thousand sq km, while the area of the state of Western Australia is a bit over 2.5 million sq km.

    That's about 3.5 Texii*.

    * I know - Texii probably isn't the correct plural for Texas, but Texases just sounded wrong.

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