Microwave Bypass

Microwave Bypass, Inc. launched the world's first fixed wireless internet access technology in 1987, a decade before Wi-Fi.

It enabled local and remote networks to connect at the then full Ethernet (802.3) data rate of 10 megabits per second, and for up to 4.3 miles.

Its wireless solution consisted of a modified broadcast quality video radio (23 GHz) coupled with Microwave Bypass' EtherWave Transceiver.

After a successful demo the first two production links were installed in parallel between Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Harvard's Cardiac Computer Center, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) across the Charles River.

Later that year Microwave Bypass completed an exclusive deal, announced by Motorola,[2] for the transfer of its EtherWave Transceiver and LAN-LINK 1000 Bridge technologies.