Researchers eye 100-gigabit-per-second airborne wireless data links

摘要

U.S. military researchers are moving forward on a project to develop a military wireless data link able to transmit data at speeds as fast as 100 gigabits per second within one RF and microwave frequency channel. Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., released a solicitation (DARPA-BAA-15-22) for the second and third phases of the 100 Gb/s RF Backbone (100G) program. These phases of the 100G program will reduce the number of participating contractors from six to two, and the two companies picked will share about $27 million. The program seeks to create a high-availability airborne communications link with fiber-optic-equivalent capacity and long reach that can propagate through clouds, rain, and fog.