Microwave Wireless Internet Provider

March 3, 2011 Aerocom

 

  • Definition: A Microwave Wireless Internet connection is a type of Internet service that is delivered to a business via a Microwave Dish placed on the company’s rooftop and handed off to the customer via an Ethernet cable. This moderately priced type of Internet can be deployed at extremely high speeds but (because it’s traveling by air), can be prone to a little lower quality than wireline connections and the dish must have a direct line-of-sight with one of the providers’ nearest antennas.
  • Best Fit: A company located in a fairly flat geographic area (since hills prevent line-of-site), that does not have access to fiber but wants a very high-speed, synchronous Internet connection.
  • Benefits:
    • Inexpensive Router. Extremely high bandwidth yet handed off via Ethernet as opposed to needing to purchase an expensive router with single or dual DS3 Interface cards.
    • Bandwidth on demand. Depending on the port size purchased, a company can burst their Internet speed above the purchased amount, when needed.
    • Fast Scalability. If the capacity is available, increasing the speed of your Microwave Wireless Internet connection is much faster than other Internet connectivity products.
    • Fast Speed. 1M+ Synchronous Download and Upload bandwidth.
    • Same speed, all the time. Microwave Internet connections are typically dedicated bandwidth, not shared with other neighboring customers of that service provider.
    • Faster overall performance and less downtime. Microwave Wireless Internet connections come with a Service Level Agreement (SLA), that guarantees Network Availability, Packet Loss, Latency and sometimes Jitter.
  • Available Features with Select Providers:
    • Burstable Bandwidth
    • Managed Router
    • Online bandwidth utilization reporting.
    • BGP Routing
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