The market for short-haul line-of-sight millimeterwave transmission links

Author

Meinel, H.H.

Author_Institution

Res. Center, Daimler-Benz AG, Ulm, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

17-21 June 1996

Firstpage

487

Abstract

GSM type telephone systems have become a global standard today. In such a digital network, mobile CELLULAR-TELEPHONEs communicate at 0.9 or 1.8 GHz within cell sizes of 1 to 20 km in diameter; groups of five to 20 of these cells have to be linked to a controller-station. This is the first valuable niche market, where millimeter radio fits in. Wireless CATV with projects like CellularVision, utilizing defined spectrum allocations at 28 and 42 GHz, respectively, are the basis for another upcoming market: VIDEO-ON-DEMAND, i.e. interactive television transmission and teleconferencing. This is the second valuable niche market, where millimeter radio fits in. The actual market situation-upcoming trends and development directions-with emphasis on Europe, will be reviewed in this paper.

Keywords

cable television; cellular radio; interactive television; radio links; teleconferencing; 0.9 GHz; 1.8 GHz; 28 GHz; 42 GHz; CellularVision; European market; GSM telephone system; digital network; interactive television; millimeter radio; mobile cellular telephones; short-haul line-of-sight millimeter wave transmission links; teleconferencing; video-on-demand; wireless CATV; Base stations; Distributed control; Europe; GSM; Mobile communication; Personal communication networks; Size control; TV; Teleconferencing; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1996., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3246-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1996.510979

Filename

510979