GigaBeam Launches Wireless Fiber

(Product News, 20 Jun 2007)

GigaBeam Corp. is launching a 100Mbps WiFiber wireless fiber product in the licensed 70GHz/80GHz wireless spectrum. This new product is based on the current G-Series radio architecture which has been field proven for the past two years.

The new G-Series 100Mbps product is to be upgradeable to the G-Series 1.25Gbps product with a software download to be provided by GigaBeam. Previously, the company's product line was only focused on providing transport wireless connectivity to establish infrastructure networks across metro areas, and to provide ultra high speed connectivity between two locations. The company has recognized that in conjunction with deployments of its WiFiber transport product, there have has been a significant number of lower speed microwave links deployed by its customers to provide access to the WiFiber transport infrastructure created using the company's WiFiber product. This new 100Mbps product is intended to be an alternative technology to, and in lieu of, microwave access links. The company believes that, even though its 1.25Gbps product drives this access market opportunity, there is greater demand, in terms of number of links, for the 100Mbps product. The Company expects a substantial demand for this 100Mbps product because it will be significantly lower in price than the G-Series 1.25Gbps product (comparable in price to microwave products), compatible with 100 base-T lower priced switch hardware and rapidly scalable to a gigabit-per-second speed product with a software upgrade. In addition, the spectrum price for a point-to-point licensed link in the 70GHz/80GHz spectrum is only a few hundred dollars for a 10 year term.

GigaBeam WiFiber® products operate in the 71GHz to 76GHz and 81GHz to 86GHz upper millimeter wave spectrum bands. This portion of the spectrum has been authorized by the Federal Communications Commission and the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) and certain other countries for licensed wireless commercial use. Use of these frequency bands for commercial use was pioneered by GigaBeam's founders.

GigaBeam's technology, utilizing these large blocks of contiguous spectrum, enables multi-Gigabit-per-second communications through use of Gigabit Ethernet and other standard protocols. The current speed achieved by GigaBeam's WiFiber G-1.25 product series, prior to introduction of the 100Mbps product, is full duplex at 100Mbps software scalable to 1Gbps (equivalent to 647 T1 lines or 1,000 DSL connections) which supports GigE protocol. GigaBeam previously announced its WiFiber G-2.7 series, to be released in the second half of 2007, and which is designed to operate at 2.7Gbps. The protocols to be supported by the G-2.7 product series include 2 x GigE (2 x 1Gbps); OC-48 / STM-16 (2.48Gbps); SMPTE 292M (1.48Gbps), ADS/Digivance, and both 1 and 2Gbps Fiber Channel (2 x 1 Fiber Channel OR 1 x 2 Fiber Channel). GigaBeam also plans deployment of future products capable of 10Gbps utilizing either the 10 Gigabit Ethernet or OC-192 protocol standards.

GigaBeam's WiFiber technology is similar to terrestrial fiber in terms of speed and reliability. WiFiber has a substantial advantage over terrestrial fiber because WiFiber can be rapidly deployed and costs less to deploy than terrestrial fiber. Terrestrial fiber can take months to deploy and also require significant regulatory and environmental approvals prior to installation.

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