Hopping the gap.

Fixed wireless may be a low-cost way to reach the business market

The cable industry is at the point of being able to put its PacketCable and DOCSIS platforms to work serving soaring demand for bandwidth and applications in the small- and medium-size business sectors, thanks to advances in wireless broadband technology.

In what amounts to a fortunate coincidence for cable operators, manufacturers of point-to-multipoint (PMP) two-way fixed wireless systems have begun offering new solutions purporting to overcome previous platform limitations just as version 1.