When people think of education, images of classrooms with students in seats and a teacher in front often springs to mind. The bell rings, and for 6th graders and above all the way through...
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Recently, all we hear about is change. How the virus changed our lives, how the virus changed our environment, how it will change our future. All of this is true. All is concerning. Still, life...
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The Rural Broadband Situation: Improving all the Time - with True Gigabit Connections on the Horizon
Deploying broadband services in rural areas has always been problematic. Everyone recognizes the “fairness” factor, but primarily for carrier “ROI” reasons, it has been a very slow process. Add...
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Like the transition from 3G to 4G, 4G to 5G will represent a sea change in mobile network (and Wi-Fi) network operations. Networks will become much more dense and “meshier” with much more...
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Awareness of the transformative nature of 5G is increasing and we know full well that 5G is used for more than cell phones. It will be used for industrial, medical, AI, and automotive devices to...
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Implementing a wireless network to support WiFi access, surveillance, Point of Sale and other applications at temporary, large-scale events can be a tricky endeavor. Anytime thousands of people...
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As the world struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the primary tools being used to combat the virus is isolation. Whatever the term – isolation, social distancing from others, stay at home...
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As we enter the third decade of the century, it is a given that we now live in a Gigabit World. Delivering those gigabits wirelessly is now all the rage, and as with all “new” technologies there...
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To meet the insatiable need for more and more bits per second in the world we live in, the wireless ecosystem turned to the only spectrum that is capable of delivering on the gigabit promise -...
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Don’t get caught with your network down: Video Surveillance using mmWave for connectivity will extend your Surveillance network quickly and on budget!
Is your network crying out for bandwidth?...
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It’s a Gigabit World and not just for business. Consumers are part of the push and are demanding gigabit connections to support bandwidth intensive applications such as 4k or even 8k video,...
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Smart Cities and 5G are all the rage in the press today. But what is a Smart city? What is 5G and how does it play into the future of these cities we blithely call “Smart?” Which of the “32...
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Since the beginning of wireless there has been a hard and fast trade-off between capacity and range. The further a wireless connection can go, the less data it can support and vice versa. Today’s...
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Fixed Wireless Access, FWA, has been around for a while, as noted in previous blogs. For the past 5 to 10 years the majority of fixed wireless access (FWA) deployments and market share has been...
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At Siklu we are going to break existing paradigms and illustrate how to provide 10Gbps Full Duplex connections using E-band for distances up to 6 miles.
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Part One of our Fixed Wireless Success in the Residential Market reviewed past efforts to deliver to the market cost competitive solutions with an acceptable ROI. In Part Two we will investigate...
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While 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) receives a new round of attention from the community - carriers, vendors, and analysts, the issues it will need to resolve are much older. Prior to 5G, fixed...
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Wireless Internet Service Providers have long had a role in connecting homes and business. For over 20 years WISPs have been serving a portion of the market that does not have access to...
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There was a time when my ISDN connection had all the throughput I needed. Two voice plus data got me 144kbps, well fast enough for my email and web browsing. Fast forward to Netlfix shifting to a...
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BRYONY BARNES, Marketing Expert at Purdicom - July 23, 2018 - Have you ever forgotten your phone when you’ve left the house, and felt utterly lost without it? It isn’t that surprising, considering...
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In the old days, outdoor fixed wireless access (FWA) was primarily used for one simple yet powerful application – point to point (PTP) cell site backhaul. As cellular technology improved and...
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Consumer expectations for Internet access and entertainment in the home have evolved over the years, and so has last mile access technology to meet those demands. However, in many ways for the...
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Millimeter waves were all over the news in the past year. U.S. major carriers: AT&T and Verizon, backed by major system and chip vendors, are definitely leading the trend and the technology proof...
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Plug YOUR numbers in and get the ROI YOU need to deliver Gigabit to the home services.
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There are close to 126 million households in the US, out of which 106 million have some form of broadband. FCC reports have found that about three-quarters of the country's developed census blocks...
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Nowhere is broadband internet's last-mile problem more clearly exemplified than in Multiple-Dwelling Units (MDUs). Not surprisingly, the FCC issued a notice of inquiry particularly about broadband...
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Wireline broadband service providers are under heavy pressure: First,
20% of Americans have cut their cable subscriptions to watch television on streaming services such as
Netflix. These...
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Why you don’t need to spend $5B like Verizon for 5G mmWave spectrum licenses
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You might be thinking that the only way to speed up hybrid fiber-wireless networks is to expand the capacity of the wireless link. It turns out that’s just one option. A consortium of innovative...
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Who would you expect such a reaction from? Probably a rich, techie tycoon, or at the very least a gaming geek? As a vendor that serves many ISP’s, I can testify that only a handful of premium...
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33% of your customers are going to leave you for a service provider that delivers higher speeds[1].
So delivering gigabit services to all of your customers, including the single family homes, is a...
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It wasn’t too long ago that security professionals were skeptical about installing a wireless surveillance network when a traditional fiber network was not an option. They would often cast doubt...
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The first science experiment with millimeter waves occurred in 1897, conducted by Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose. He conducted trials to measure different properties of materials, actually...
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While 5G specifications are still in process and in fact won’t be complete until 2020, there is plenty to start thinking about today.
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Smart City Enhanced parking lot security can provide us with peace of mind while we shop, travel, work or visit a business. Video surveillance networks and emergency phones in parking lots are...
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I’m about to tell you why millimeter waves are the best thing since sliced bread: how they provide high capacity, are immune to interference and suitable for dense deployment and no, you don’t...
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Continuing my previous post that was an introduction to millimeter waves, I want to go deeper into the 3 major differences between E-Band and V-Band frequencies:
1. E-Band gives you protection...
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