60 GHz Wi-Fi Products Now Possible; 7Gbps!

[bogcotton]

[citation][nom]bogcotton[/nom]Can a stronger signalled version of this be sent down some form of fibre-optic cables?[/citation]

I get -11 and noone explains why?

Wifi is light, fibre optics internally reflect light, I just want a reason why not?

 

[scott_madison1]

[citation][nom]bogcotton[/nom]I get -11 and noone explains why?Wifi is light, fibre optics internally reflect light, I just want a reason why not?[/citation]

Well for one thing, radio waves are not light, do some research...
2nd of all, it wouldn't be wireless if you put it on a wire now would it?

 

[bogcotton]

[citation][nom]scott_madison1[/nom]Well for one thing, radio waves are not light, do some research... 2nd of all, it wouldn't be wireless if you put it on a wire now would it?[/citation]

It isn't visible light, of course not, but neither is infrared, or UV, it is electromagnetic radiation, which will be reflected in the same way light is, if you cater the cable to suit the wavelength (0.5 cm in this case).

The point is, it wouldn't be wireless, but it would be 7Gb/s and have a long range. You didn't give a reason why this can't be done.

 

[scott_madison1]

[citation][nom]bogcotton[/nom]It isn't visible light, of course not, but neither is infrared, or UV, it is electromagnetic radiation, which will be reflected in the same way light is, if you cater the cable to suit the wavelength (0.5 cm in this case).The point is, it wouldn't be wireless, but it would be 7Gb/s and have a long range. You didn't give a reason why this can't be done.[/citation]

Well at least you corrected yourself. Your correct it is electromagnetic radiation.

If you truely want a reason why it cannot be done over cable I will give you one. Sure putting it over a "cable" would make it long range, BUT the point of wireless is to be able to connect to it without wires correct? How do you suppose I will be able to connect to it over a WIRE that once again is not wireless...

 

[aowireless]

It is a great concept and has some very interesting applications. But the issue will be that 60GHz will not penetrate materials. At 1W 60GHz won't even penetrate the human skin. The other issue will be how it handles multipath.

As a wireless integrator I'm not sure it will be a huge sell to the Enterprise, but as a home theater geek I can see some cool applications!

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]bogcotton[/nom]It isn't visible light, of course not, but neither is infrared, or UV, it is electromagnetic radiation, which will be reflected in the same way light is, if you cater the cable to suit the wavelength (0.5 cm in this case).The point is, it wouldn't be wireless, but it would be 7Gb/s and have a long range. You didn't give a reason why this can't be done.[/citation]
Fiber optics currently run at speeds much greater than 7gbps.

"NTT was able to achieve 69.1 Tb/s transmission by applying wavelength division multiplex (WDM) of 432 wavelengths with a capacity of 171 Gb/s over a single 240 km-long optical fiber. This is the highest optical transmission ever recorded in the transmission field."

From: http://www.ntt.co.jp/news2010/1003e/100325a.html

 

[knickle]

[citation][nom]bogcotton[/nom]It isn't visible light, of course not, but neither is infrared, or UV, it is electromagnetic radiation, which will be reflected in the same way light is...[/citation]
Radio waves and light waves are at different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light waves are way way up in the 400 terohertz range. They have their own unique properties. For example, a radio wave will pass through a wall, a light wave won't. If you want a radio wave to travel through a cable, you would need metal, like copper, in which case that already exists. It's called Cat5. 😉

 

[CaptainBib]

Interesting, but it will probably be relegated to ad-hoc style networks between phones and such in the same area, due to the limited range.

 

[extremepcs]

10Gb wired Ethernet FTW!

 

[Guest]

well this can't actually get that good of range, at 30ghz the earth's atmospheric water vapor acts as relectors and defractors for the wireless waves. Not to mention that 60 ghz is stronger than most level 3 orbit satellites. This seems complete nonsense. There is no way you could achieve this type of wireless frequency. Not to mention the radiation from this device would be enough to cook you if you stood within 200 meters of it.

 

[cdillon]

[citation][nom]bogcotton[/nom]It isn't visible light, of course not, but neither is infrared, or UV, it is electromagnetic radiation, which will be reflected in the same way light is, if you cater the cable to suit the wavelength (0.5 cm in this case).The point is, it wouldn't be wireless, but it would be 7Gb/s and have a long range. You didn't give a reason why this can't be done.[/citation]

Fiber-optic speeds have far surpassed 7Gbit for years, and there is zero sense in trying to shoe-horn a relatively "low-speed" and physically incompatible WiFi technology onto fiber. Bell Labs crammed 100 Petabit/sec onto a single fiber in a lab late last year, and it is possible to cram hundreds of Gigabit/sec onto a single fiber over long distances in the real world using DWDM. The theoretical bandwidth limit of single-mode fiber is extremely high, although I don't know exactly what it is.