5Gbps Wireless Prototypes Announced. Yes, 5gigs.

I've been telling folks for some time that 1 gigabit wireless was just around the corner. iTWire is reporting on a new wireless chip prototype that will broadcast at throughput rates of 5 gigs per second. These chips, operating way up in the 60GHz unlicensed band, will be great for PANs and LANs, but probably won't be as useful for community networking (since they'll absolutely need line of sight). But with 7GHz of spectrum to work with (57-64GHz), these devices are showing the power of spread spectrum wireless.