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<p><b>Fixed wireless</b> is the operation of <a href="Wireless" title="Wireless">wireless</a> communication devices or systems used to connect two fixed locations (e.g., building to building or tower to building) with a radio or other wireless link, such as <a href="Laser_bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Laser bridge">laser bridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Usually, fixed wireless is part of a <a href="Wireless_LAN" title="Wireless LAN">wireless LAN</a> infrastructure. The purpose of a fixed wireless link is to enable data communications between the two sites or buildings. Fixed wireless data (FWD) links are often a cost-effective alternative to leasing fiber or installing cables between the buildings.
</p><p>The <a href="Point-to-point_(telecommunications)" title="Point-to-point (telecommunications)">point-to-point</a> signal <a href="Data_transmission" class="mw-redirect" title="Data transmission">transmissions</a> occur through the air over a <a href="Terrestrial_radio" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrestrial radio">terrestrial</a> <a href="Microwave" title="Microwave">microwave</a> platform rather than through <a href="Copper" title="Copper">copper</a> or <a href="Optical_fiber" title="Optical fiber">optical fiber</a>; therefore, fixed wireless does not require <a href="Satellite" title="Satellite">satellite</a> feeds or local <a href="Telephone" title="Telephone">telephone</a> service. The advantages of fixed wireless include the ability to connect with users in remote areas without the need for laying new cables and the capacity for broad <a href="Bandwidth_(computing)" title="Bandwidth (computing)">bandwidth</a> that is not impeded by fiber or cable capacities. Fixed wireless devices usually derive their electrical power from the <a href="Public_utility" title="Public utility">public utility</a> mains, unlike mobile wireless or portable wireless devices which tend to be <a href="Battery_(electricity)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battery (electricity)">battery</a> powered.
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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Antenna_(radio)" title="Antenna (radio)">Antenna (radio)</a></div>
<p>Fixed wireless services typically use a directional radio antenna on each end of the signal (e.g., on each building). These antennas are generally larger than those seen in <a href="Wi-Fi" title="Wi-Fi">Wi-Fi</a> setups and are designed for outdoor use. Several types of radio antennas are available that accommodate various weather conditions, signal distances and bandwidths. They are usually selected to make the beam as narrow as possible and thus focus transmit power to their destination, increasing reliability and reducing the chance of eavesdropping or data injection. The links are usually arranged as a point-to-point setup to permit the use of these antennas. This also permits the link to have better speed and or better reach for the same amount of power.
</p><p>These antennas are typically designed to be used in the unlicensed <a href="ISM_band" class="mw-redirect" title="ISM band">ISM band</a> radio frequency bands (900 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz), however, in most commercial installations, licensed frequencies may be used to ensure quality of service (QoS) or to provide higher connection speeds.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fixed_wireless_broadband">Fixed wireless broadband</h2></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Wireless_broadband" title="Wireless broadband">Wireless broadband</a></div>
<p>Businesses and homes can use fixed-wireless antenna technology to access broadband Internet and <a href="Layer_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Layer 2">Layer 2</a> networks using fixed wireless broadband. Networks which have redundancy and saturation and antennas that can aggregate signal from multiple carriers are able to offer fail-over and redundancy for connectivity not generally afforded by wired connections. In rural areas where wired infrastructure is not yet available, fixed-wireless broadband can be a viable option for Internet access.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Internet_access" title="Internet access">Internet access</a></li>
<li><a href="Mobile_wireless_communication" class="mw-redirect" title="Mobile wireless communication">Mobile wireless communication</a></li>
<li><a href="Mobile_broadband" title="Mobile broadband">Mobile broadband</a></li>
<li><a href="Microwave_Bypass" title="Microwave Bypass">Microwave Bypass</a></li>
<li><a href="Ethernet_bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethernet bridge">Ethernet bridge</a></li>
<li><a href="Wireless_ISP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wireless ISP">Wireless ISP</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="History_of_the_transistor" title="History of the transistor">transistor</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Smoke_signal" title="Smoke signal">Smoke signals</a></li>
<li><a href="History_of_telecommunication" title="History of telecommunication">Telecommunications history</a></li>
<li><a href="Telautograph" title="Telautograph">Telautograph</a></li>
<li><a href="Telegraphy" title="Telegraphy">Telegraphy</a></li>
<li><a href="Teleprinter" title="Teleprinter">Teleprinter</a> (teletype)</li>
<li><a href="History_of_the_telephone" title="History of the telephone">Telephone</a></li>
<li><i><a href="The_Telephone_Cases" title="The Telephone Cases">The Telephone Cases</a></i></li>
<li><a href="History_of_television" title="History of television">Television</a>
<ul><li><a href="Digital_television" title="Digital television">digital</a></li>
<li><a href="Streaming_television" title="Streaming television">streaming</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Submarine_communications_cable#Early_history:_telegraph_and_coaxial_cables" title="Submarine communications cable">Undersea telegraph line</a></li>
<li><a href="History_of_videotelephony" title="History of videotelephony">Videotelephony</a></li>
<li><a href="Whistled_language" title="Whistled language">Whistled language</a></li>
<li><a href="Wireless_revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Wireless revolution">Wireless revolution</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pioneers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Nasir_Ahmed_(engineer)" title="Nasir Ahmed (engineer)">Nasir Ahmed</a></li>
<li><a href="Edwin_Howard_Armstrong" title="Edwin Howard Armstrong">Edwin Howard Armstrong</a></li>
<li><a href="Mohamed_M._Atalla" title="Mohamed M. Atalla">Mohamed M. Atalla</a></li>
<li><a href="John_Logie_Baird" title="John Logie Baird">John Logie Baird</a></li>
<li><a href="Paul_Baran" title="Paul Baran">Paul Baran</a></li>
<li><a href="John_Bardeen" title="John Bardeen">John Bardeen</a></li>
<li><a href="Alexander_Graham_Bell" title="Alexander Graham Bell">Alexander Graham Bell</a></li>
<li><a href="Emile_Berliner" title="Emile Berliner">Emile Berliner</a></li>
<li><a href="Tim_Berners-Lee" title="Tim Berners-Lee">Tim Berners-Lee</a></li>
<li><a href="Francis_Blake_(inventor)" title="Francis Blake (inventor)">Francis Blake</a></li>
<li><a href="Jagadish_Chandra_Bose" title="Jagadish Chandra Bose">Jagadish Chandra Bose</a></li>
<li><a href="Charles_Bourseul" title="Charles Bourseul">Charles Bourseul</a></li>
<li><a href="Walter_Houser_Brattain" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Houser Brattain">Walter Houser Brattain</a></li>
<li><a href="Vint_Cerf" title="Vint Cerf">Vint Cerf</a></li>
<li><a href="Claude_Chappe" title="Claude Chappe">Claude Chappe</a></li>
<li><a href="Yogen_Dalal" class="mw-redirect" title="Yogen Dalal">Yogen Dalal</a></li>
<li><a href="Donald_Davies" title="Donald Davies">Donald Davies</a></li>
<li><a href="Daniel_Davis_Jr." title="Daniel Davis Jr.">Daniel Davis Jr.</a></li>
<li><a href="Amos_Dolbear" title="Amos Dolbear">Amos Dolbear</a></li>
<li><a href="Thomas_Edison" title="Thomas Edison">Thomas Edison</a></li>
<li><a href="Philo_Farnsworth" title="Philo Farnsworth">Philo Farnsworth</a></li>
<li><a href="Reginald_Fessenden" title="Reginald Fessenden">Reginald Fessenden</a></li>
<li><a href="Lee_de_Forest" title="Lee de Forest">Lee de Forest</a></li>
<li><a href="Elisha_Gray" title="Elisha Gray">Elisha Gray</a></li>
<li><a href="Oliver_Heaviside" title="Oliver Heaviside">Oliver Heaviside</a></li>
<li><a href="Robert_Hooke" title="Robert Hooke">Robert Hooke</a></li>
<li><a href="Erna_Schneider_Hoover" title="Erna Schneider Hoover">Erna Schneider Hoover</a></li>
<li><a href="Harold_Hopkins_(physicist)" title="Harold Hopkins (physicist)">Harold Hopkins</a></li>
<li><a href="Gardiner_Greene_Hubbard" title="Gardiner Greene Hubbard">Gardiner Greene Hubbard</a></li>
<li><a href="Bob_Kahn" class="mw-redirect" title="Bob Kahn">Bob Kahn</a></li>
<li><a href="Dawon_Kahng" title="Dawon Kahng">Dawon Kahng</a></li>
<li><a href="Charles_K._Kao" title="Charles K. Kao">Charles K. Kao</a></li>
<li><a href="Narinder_Singh_Kapany" title="Narinder Singh Kapany">Narinder Singh Kapany</a></li>
<li><a href="Hedy_Lamarr" title="Hedy Lamarr">Hedy Lamarr</a></li>
<li><a href="Roberto_Landell_de_Moura" title="Roberto Landell de Moura">Roberto Landell</a></li>
<li><a href="Innocenzo_Manzetti" title="Innocenzo Manzetti">Innocenzo Manzetti</a></li>
<li><a href="Guglielmo_Marconi" title="Guglielmo Marconi">Guglielmo Marconi</a></li>
<li><a href="Robert_Metcalfe" title="Robert Metcalfe">Robert Metcalfe</a></li>
<li><a href="Antonio_Meucci" title="Antonio Meucci">Antonio Meucci</a></li>
<li><a href="Samuel_Morse" title="Samuel Morse">Samuel Morse</a></li>
<li><a href="Jun-ichi_Nishizawa" title="Jun-ichi Nishizawa">Jun-ichi Nishizawa</a></li>
<li><a href="Charles_Grafton_Page" title="Charles Grafton Page">Charles Grafton Page</a></li>
<li><a href="Radia_Perlman" title="Radia Perlman">Radia Perlman</a></li>
<li><a href="Alexander_Stepanovich_Popov" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Stepanovich Popov">Alexander Stepanovich Popov</a></li>
<li><a href="Tivadar_Pusk%C3%A1s" title="Tivadar Puskás">Tivadar Puskás</a></li>
<li><a href="Johann_Philipp_Reis" title="Johann Philipp Reis">Johann Philipp Reis</a></li>
<li><a href="Claude_Shannon" title="Claude Shannon">Claude Shannon</a></li>
<li><a href="Almon_Brown_Strowger" title="Almon Brown Strowger">Almon Brown Strowger</a></li>
<li><a href="Henry_Sutton_(inventor)" title="Henry Sutton (inventor)">Henry Sutton</a></li>
<li><a href="Charles_Sumner_Tainter" title="Charles Sumner Tainter">Charles Sumner Tainter</a></li>
<li><a href="Nikola_Tesla" title="Nikola Tesla">Nikola Tesla</a></li>
<li><a href="Camille_Tissot" title="Camille Tissot">Camille Tissot</a></li>
<li><a href="Alfred_Vail" title="Alfred Vail">Alfred Vail</a></li>
<li><a href="Thomas_A._Watson" title="Thomas A. Watson">Thomas A. Watson</a></li>
<li><a href="Charles_Wheatstone" title="Charles Wheatstone">Charles Wheatstone</a></li>
<li><a href="Vladimir_K._Zworykin" title="Vladimir K. Zworykin">Vladimir K. Zworykin</a></li>
<li><i><a href="List_of_Internet_pioneers" title="List of Internet pioneers">Internet pioneers</a></i></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Transmission_medium" title="Transmission medium">Transmission<br>media</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Coaxial_cable" title="Coaxial cable">Coaxial cable</a></li>
<li><a href="Fiber-optic_communication" title="Fiber-optic communication">Fiber-optic communication</a>
<ul><li><a href="Optical_fiber" title="Optical fiber">optical fiber</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Free-space_optical_communication" title="Free-space optical communication">Free-space optical communication</a></li>
<li><a href="Molecular_communication" title="Molecular communication">Molecular communication</a></li>
<li><a href="Radio_wave" title="Radio wave">Radio waves</a>
<ul><li><a href="Wireless" title="Wireless">wireless</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Transmission_line" title="Transmission line">Transmission line</a>
<ul><li><a href="Telecommunication_circuit" title="Telecommunication circuit">telecommunication circuit</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Network_topology" title="Network topology">Network topology</a><br>and switching</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Bandwidth_(computing)" title="Bandwidth (computing)">Bandwidth</a></li>
<li><a href="Telecommunications_link" title="Telecommunications link">Links</a></li>
<li><a href="Network_switch" title="Network switch">Network switching</a>
<ul><li><a href="Circuit_switching" title="Circuit switching">circuit</a></li>
<li><a href="Packet_switching" title="Packet switching">packet</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Node_(networking)" title="Node (networking)">Nodes</a>
<ul><li><a href="Terminal_(telecommunication)" title="Terminal (telecommunication)">terminal</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Telephone_exchange" title="Telephone exchange">Telephone exchange</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Multiplexing" title="Multiplexing">Multiplexing</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Space-division_multiple_access" title="Space-division multiple access">Space-division</a></li>
<li><a href="Frequency-division_multiplexing" title="Frequency-division multiplexing">Frequency-division</a></li>
<li><a href="Time-division_multiplexing" title="Time-division multiplexing">Time-division</a></li>
<li><a href="Polarization-division_multiplexing" title="Polarization-division multiplexing">Polarization-division</a></li>
<li><a href="Orbital_angular_momentum_multiplexing" title="Orbital angular momentum multiplexing">Orbital angular-momentum</a></li>
<li><a href="Code-division_multiple_access" title="Code-division multiple access">Code-division</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Communication_protocol" title="Communication protocol">Communication protocol</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_network" title="Computer network">Computer network</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_communication" title="Data communication">Data transmission</a></li>
<li><a href="Store_and_forward" title="Store and forward">Store and forward</a></li>
<li><a href="Telecommunications_equipment" title="Telecommunications equipment">Telecommunications equipment</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Telecommunications_network" title="Telecommunications network">Types of network</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Cellular_network" title="Cellular network">Cellular network</a></li>
<li><a href="Ethernet" title="Ethernet">Ethernet</a></li>
<li><a href="Integrated_Services_Digital_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Integrated Services Digital Network">ISDN</a></li>
<li><a href="Local_area_network" title="Local area network">LAN</a></li>
<li><a href="Mobile_telephony" title="Mobile telephony">Mobile</a></li>
<li><a href="Next-generation_network" title="Next-generation network">NGN</a></li>
<li><a href="Public_switched_telephone_network" title="Public switched telephone network">Public Switched Telephone</a></li>
<li><a href="Radio_network" title="Radio network">Radio</a></li>
<li><a href="Television_broadcasting" class="mw-redirect" title="Television broadcasting">Television</a></li>
<li><a href="Telex" title="Telex">Telex</a></li>
<li><a href="UUCP" title="UUCP">UUCP</a></li>
<li><a href="Wide_area_network" title="Wide area network">WAN</a></li>
<li><a href="Wireless_network" title="Wireless network">Wireless network</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Telecommunications_network" title="Telecommunications network">Notable networks</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="ARPANET" title="ARPANET">ARPANET</a></li>
<li><a href="BITNET" title="BITNET">BITNET</a></li>
<li><a href="CYCLADES" title="CYCLADES">CYCLADES</a></li>
<li><a href="FidoNet" title="FidoNet">FidoNet</a></li>
<li><a href="Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a></li>
<li><a href="Internet2" title="Internet2">Internet2</a></li>
<li><a href="JANET" title="JANET">JANET</a></li>
<li><a href="NPL_network" title="NPL network">NPL network</a></li>
<li><a href="TANet" title="TANet">TANet</a></li>
<li><a href="Toasternet" title="Toasternet">Toasternet</a></li>
<li><a href="Usenet" title="Usenet">Usenet</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Locations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li>Africa</li>
<li>Americas
<ul><li>North</li>
<li>South</li></ul></li>
<li>Antarctica</li>
<li>Asia</li>
<li>Europe</li>
<li>Oceania</li>
<li><i><a href="List_of_telecommunications_regulatory_bodies" title="List of telecommunications regulatory bodies">Global telecommunications regulation bodies</a></i></li></ul>
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<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="List-Class article"></span></span> <a href="Outline_of_telecommunication" title="Outline of telecommunication">Outline</a></li>
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