Here’s how fixed wireless Internet stacks up against other internet technologies.
High-speed Internet service has become as essential as electricity in today’s modern business, and there’s no shortage of options available. Fixed wireless Internet is an often-overlooked, less widely known option among its competitors. However, in many cases, fixed wireless Internet delivers businesses more reliability and performance, in addition to potential cost savings. First, let’s review the Internet service options available for businesses today.
Business Fixed Wireless Internet
Fixed wireless Internet is a wireless Internet service that broadcasts data between two fixed points using a tower, antenna, and an express line of sight (LoS). Fixed wireless Internet providers, like GeoLinks, operate wireless broadcast towers connected to a fiber-optic backbone. With a direct line of sight to a business location, those towers deliver broadband Internet access by sending a signal through radio waves to an antenna that resides at that business.
Other Business Internet Options
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- DSL Broadband – Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) broadband connections use standard phone lines to deliver high-speed Internet.
- Cable Broadband – Cable Internet uses coaxial cable lines to deliver broadband internet access to a home or business. They are the same lines that deliver cable TV.
- Fiber Optic Internet – Fiber optic Internet is an Internet connection that uses fiber optic cables to deliver broadband Internet access to a business location. Data converted into light signals moves at light speed through thin glass wires inside larger, protective cables.
- Satellite Internet – A satellite provider passes an Internet signal to a satellite in space. That signal is pushed to a satellite dish at a business location.
Why Businesses Choose Fixed Wireless
Businesses that choose fixed wireless Internet do so for the distinctive features and benefits that separate it from other Internet services. Here are some examples of why:
Example #1: More Reliable than Satellite Internet
Let’s take a look at fixed wireless Internet and the weather, for example. The effects of bad weather on wireless technologies are common causes of concern for network downtime. This type of outage is most commonly associated with satellite internet services. Although both solutions require a dish or antennas, fixed wireless Internet, when engineered effectively, has far superior resiliency than satellite solutions and is unaffected by clouds, rain, and other types of bad weather conditions. In fact, in many cases, fixed wireless solutions stay operational when weather or natural disaster events disrupt all other forms of Internet access. Furthermore, advanced fixed-wireless Internet service providers (ISPs) build redundancy into their fixed wireless networks. In the case of GeoLinks, for example, this engineering translates to a 99.999% uptime capability.
Example #2: Faster Installation and Lower Up-front Cost than Fiber
Fiber optic Internet is a robust business Internet solution in terms of pure performance, but fixed wireless touts plenty of speed as well. They are both incredibly reliable and have dedicated connections. Businesses usually choose fixed wireless over fiber because of the significant cost savings during installation and because of significantly faster time-to-deployment windows. Fiber can often require construction to run fiber lines to a location, permits to do so, and then construction time. All in, a fixed wireless installation is a much faster process.
Example #3: Faster Download Speeds than Cable and DSL
While they are the most widely available Internet services, DSL and cable solutions generally have slower connections than fixed wireless. Some DSL ISPs offer speeds up to 100Mbps, while most cable ISPs max out at 1000Mbps (1Gbps). By way of comparison, GeoLinks ClearFiber™ Fixed Wireless Internet provides speeds up to 10Gbps.
Example #4: No Shared Internet Connection
A shared internet service like Cable shares bandwidth with surrounding areas. As a result, network speeds slow down significantly at peak hours of internet usage. Fixed wireless Internet offers unlimited bandwidth on its dedicated connection, which means businesses get guaranteed speeds, not “up to” speeds.
Business Internet Comparison Chart
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