Wireless gets fast(er)

Tired of waiting for that large PowerPoint presentation to download? Ready to move communications between buildings on your campus to a wireless network backbone? Researchers at the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO) may have the answer that you've been waiting for. A team from CSIRO has developed a wireless network chip that operates in the 180-220 GHz band to achieve speeds of up to 80 Gbps. The chip, which gets its speed by focusing on the fourth harmonic of the carrier wave, rather than the first, also brings lower manufacturing and operating costs. You can't buy them yet--the team is negotiating with possible manufacturers--but the promise is there for very high speed wireless coming your way.

For the latest on the high-speed wireless technology:
- Read the whole story at Network World