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We can see that we are going from 24.25GHz, right up to 86GHz. At this frequencies our wavelengths are 1.2 cm to 0.3cm. Our antennas will thus be between 0.6 cm and 0.15 cm long. As we move up 86GHz our capacity for data will move from just 240Mbps to 8.6Gbps. This is from a single wireless stream, and, if we use multiple paths, such as with MIMO antennas, we could multiple up this even more.

Our Cat-5 cables will just seem so slow compared with this. The lower frequencies (24.25–27.5GHz) will be used for macro scale networks, and which provide a wide coverage (in the way our existing 4G networks do), but local networks will scale from small to ultra-small, and support higher frequencies. The higher the frequency we go, the more reliant that we are on line-of-sight communications, thus the higher frequencies will require more localised connections (and where signals can bounce off objects).

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