Fiber is the king of capacity — but Microwave is the knight of speed, flexibility, and reach. The choice between fiber and microwave is not about which is “better,” but which is right for the location and region as well. When 5G first emerged, the industry consensus was that #fiber would be the only viable backhaul […]

I read many papers during this year about the capabilities of microwave as a backhaul technology of 5G. I see also some claims that fiber is a mandatory technology for #5G backhauling due to the huge amount of data growth with the wider bandwidth in the spectrum in Sub-6GHz and mmWave which can exceed the 1Gpbs […]