FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jan 13, 2003


Loea "Virtual" Fiber - World's First Commercial Full Speed Wireless High Defenition TV Transmission at WCAI Technical Symposium

Loea’s point-to-point wireless communication link transmits high definition television (HDTV) pictures of downtown San Jose and the San Jose airport, from the rooftop of the Hilton Hotel, to the WCAI conference headquarters at the Fairmont Hotel, about one-half mile away. Loea’s virtual fiber provides the world’s first commercial free space communications that can stream uncompressed high definition video reliably and without interference.

A Loea antenna and a high definition camera transmit live pictures to a second Loea antenna placed inside the Fairmont Hotel’s 2nd floor atrium behind large windows linked the camera to a 61” plasma display. Loea’s wireless link operates at full HDTV output speeds of 1.485 gigabits per second, the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) standard for HDTV. This full-speed streaming capacity allows Loea to transmit high definition pictures directly from the camera, without the typical half-second delay needed for data compression, nor having to use expensive data compression equipment.

Loea’s high frequency radio waves take the form of narrow “pencil” beams that can also penetrate windows to transmit full duplex (back and forth) at 1.25 gigabits per second, which is Gigabit Ethernet Standard, the equivalent of 660 T1 lines or 1,000 DSL connections. Loea’s fiberless links offer “five-nines” reliability up to a mile and can be installed in a day at a fraction of the cost of fiber.

Loea’s “virtual” fiber employs very high frequency radio waves operating at 71-76 gigahertz, the first potential commercial application of this high frequency spectrum approved by the FCC under a Special Temporary Authority.

Originally developed for the military, Loea’s virtual fiber is approved for federal government use. In June 2002, the FCC began the rule-making process to license commercial use of the technology.