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GigaBeam Corporation has announced that its WiFiber wireless fiber links, to be provided by MetroNext Inc., will be the backhaul for the City of Boston’s Wi-Fi pilot project in Roxbury’s Grove Hall and Dudley Station neighborhoods of Boston.

Boston is taking the first steps in implementing the recommendations of its Wireless Task Force. The task force recommended setting up a citywide wholesale non-profit organization to sell Wi-Fi access to any retail entity, and the retailers will provide access to consumers and businesses in Boston. MetroNext Inc. is a “next-generation” metropolitan network service provider offering high-capacity services for voice, video, data and Internet access.

GigaBeam WiFiber products operate in the 71 GHz to 76 GHz and 81 GHz to 86 GHz radio spectrum bands. This portion of the radio frequency spectrum has been authorized by the Federal Communications Commission and the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) for wireless point-to-point commercial use.

GigaBeam’s technology, using these large blocks of authorized contiguous spectrum, enables multi-Gigabit-per-second communications through use of Gigabit Ethernet and other standard protocols. The current speed achieved by GigaBeam’s WiFiber G-1.25 product series is full duplex at 1Gigabit-per-second (equivalent to 647 T1 lines or 1,000 DSL connections), which supports GigE protocol.

GigaBeam recently announced its WiFiber G-2.7 series, to be released in Q4, 2006, which will operate at 2.7 Gbps. The protocols to be supported by the G-2.7 product series include 2 x GigE (2 x 1 Gbps); OC-48 / STM-16 (2.488 Gbps); SMPTE 292M (1.485 Gbps) and both 1 Gbps and 2 Gbps fiber channel. GigaBeam also plans deployment of future products capable of 10 Gigabits-per-second using either the 10 Gigabit Ethernet or OC-192 protocol standards.