SkyPipes Uses Simple Principles To Boost Wireless Network Reliability And Capacity

 

During the last 60 years the only type of wireless communication approach that has consistently demonstrated the ability to provide the same level of performance and reliability as using physical wires is the use of focused-beam point-to-point communication. Historically, point-to-point wireless has mostly been used for long-distance telephone communication links and now Internet backbone trunks. SkyPipes has scaled down this immensely successful point-to-point concept for practical and affordable use at the neighborhood level.

 

 

SkyPipes addresses this problem by creating neighborhood grids of subscriber radio nodes. Each node can potentially communicate with many other nodes in the grid using smart antennas that can be instantly aimed at many other nodes in the grid. Each node can send or receive data packets to/from a particular subscriber and also act as a relay point for packets from other subscriber nodes. If anything should interfere with a particular path between two nodes, the nodes' smart antennas are programmed to instantly re-aim in the direction of another node that has no such interference. This ability to dynamically reconfigure the paths through the network dramatically increases the reliability of the network putting it on par with wired network reliability.