Rainbow Broadband
Encyclopedia
Rainbow Broadband is a Manhattan
-based wireless ISP offering WiMAX
-based wireless internet service
at speeds exceeding 100Mbit in the New York City area
by using the rooftops of tall, fiber connected buildings to beam bandwidth
to customers in neighboring commercial buildings. It is very new and has not taken much work on developing their service.
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
-based wireless ISP offering WiMAX
WiMAX
WiMAX is a communication technology for wirelessly delivering high-speed Internet service to large geographical areas. The 2005 WiMAX revision provided bit rates up to 40 Mbit/s with the 2011 update up to 1 Gbit/s for fixed stations...
-based wireless internet service
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...
at speeds exceeding 100Mbit in the New York City area
New York metropolitan area
The New York metropolitan area, also known as Greater New York, or the Tri-State area, is the region that composes of New York City and the surrounding region...
by using the rooftops of tall, fiber connected buildings to beam bandwidth
Bandwidth (computing)
In computer networking and computer science, bandwidth, network bandwidth, data bandwidth, or digital bandwidth is a measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bits/second or multiples of it .Note that in textbooks on wireless communications, modem data transmission,...
to customers in neighboring commercial buildings. It is very new and has not taken much work on developing their service.