New antenna design in test for large-scale wireless LANs

By John Cox, NetworkWorld.com, 06/09/05

5G Wireless is testing a wireless LAN antenna array that borrows from cellular base station antenna designs.

The antenna, fitted to 5G's multi-radio wireless LAN nodes, divides a wide swath of real estate into 120-degree sections, and boosts the range of 11b radios to up to 2.5 miles, and 11g up to nearly 1 mile. The antenna is intended for campus-wide deployments, so-called hot zones (covering a downtown area or a stadium), and municipal wireless nets. The Marina del Rey, Calif., vendor says it will ship the product in Q3. More on its G-Force Base Station product here.

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