About the wireless technology

WDSL Fixed Wireless Broadband is the next generation of broadband connectivity to the home. It has been one of the biggest breakthroughs to come out of the Fish Telecom research engine. WDSL was designed with one primary objective - to deliver a superior broadband experience in areas stranded by ADSL.

"The Guys I fear most are the ones who can start with a blank sheet of paper.", John Chambers, CEO, Cisco.

Start with a blank sheet is exactly what Fish Telecom engineers did.By leveraging their talents and backgrounds in Lucent Technologies and Vodafone the delivered a solution that combines the frequency re-use efficiencies of digital cellular mobile phone networks with the torrential data capacities of Fast Ethernet, they named it WDSL Fixed Wireless Broadband. Through the process of ultra short development cycles a prototype "cellular broadband" access system was demonstrated in early 2000. The following picture depicts the network architecture that the engineers saw as a solution before it ever existed.

This artists impression represented a revolutionary approach to "last mile" telecommunications as it demonstrated a solution to today's biggest network bottleneck - limited availability of last mile to thousands of people. WDSL Fixed Wireless Broadband was going to make bandwidth affordable to all consumers.

The following section therefore explains the enhancement that WDSL Fixed Wireless Broadband offers, hence allowing you to make the most informed broadband decision for your personal and business needs.

Scalability - Fish Telecom is deploying more and more WDSL, particularly in areas stranded by ADSL so that all residents can have access to the benefits of broadband.

Speed - The maximum affordable and practical line speed on ADSL is 1500 kilobits per second toward your PC and only 256 kilobits per second on the reverse channel (i.e. from your PC back to the Internet). You could say that they want you to consume on ADSL but some how the limited reverse channel suggests they don't want you to produce. WDSL was designed with the belief that you want to do both, give and take as it were, so right now WDSL offers a line speed of 2000 kilobits per second toward your PC and another 2000 kilo bits per second back to the Fish Telecom servers. However WDSL line speed will be doubled in 2004, and doubled again in the following year at no extra cost to you.

Multimedia - Unfortunately ADSL is restricted, by service providers supplying only one public IP address per connection, which seriously jeopardizes your ability to run some feature rich multimedia applications, particularly video conferencing, streaming video, streaming audio and some client/ server communications on multiple computers. WDSL allows you to have up to 10 public IP addresses so that you can run all multimedia applications effortlessly on all your home computers.

Broadband communications technology is moving faster every day as high tech firms reduce development cycles, and compete to get the lions share of the broadband market. Current broadband offerings have up until now been a great work around but not really a solution for the torrent of data capacity that's needed in the future. Fish Telecom's WDSL Fixed Wireless Broadband was designed to meet the demands of the new Information Economy.