THE channel could soon have access to high speed wide area wireless.

Until now, if channel companies wanted licensed spectrum in the UK, their only option has been to approach Ofcom. Wireless network specialist Red-M, however, is offering an alternative with the launch of Red-Link, which offers a permit to operate high speed point to point links up to 100Mb/s.

Explains Andrew Barnard, managing consultant at Red-M: “Red-M is a licence holder for a substantial amount of spectrum in the 28GHz band which we acquired under a new class of technology neutral and tradable licences following an Ofcom auction in February 2008. We are the first organisation to enter the market as a band manager as we will manage the spectrum for our own use and also allow other organisations access to this spectrum with our Red-Link service.�

Red-Link is suitable for multiple technologies and applications, single or multiple links, where a business wants to take advantage of 28 GHZ spectrum to deliver high-quality radio links, fully managed by Red-M.

It supports these point to point links in the 28GHz band which are suitable for dynamic modulation which allows the radio link to support both high throughput and high availability at the same time.