Commercial Channels for the Millimetric Spectrum

60GHz Applications

The 60-GHz band is a free/unlicensed band which features a large amount of bandwidth and a large worldwide overlap. The large bandwidth means that a very high volume of information can be transmitted wirelessly.

The large worldwide overlap results in interoperability around the globe. Multiple applications can benefit from this--wireless HDTV; wireless laptop docking stations; extremely fast downloading of files via wireless Gigabit Ethernet, wireless USB 2.0, or other protocols; wireless telecommunications backhauls, and so forth.

The 60-GHz band offers ample, license-free bandwidth. In the US, the range from 57 to 64 GHz is available, while in Japan, 59 to 66 GHz are available.

With 7GHz of bandwidth, there is a multitude of high data rate applications that one can envision.