How radio takes our fiber optic network to new heights

Google Fiber Webpass uses wireless technology to provide high-speed internet to the apartments, condominiums, and offices we serve across the country. Wireless technology is a broad term that can mean many different things, like Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, IoT protocols, and military communications. Those are great, but the Google Fiber Webpass wireless method of internet deployment is different. We use millimeter wave — or wireless radio — technology for what’s known as “backhaul,” for how we deliver wireless internet to any given building. This method can really speed up how quickly we can get service to a multi-unit building. Simply put, while our fiber optic lines deliver fast speeds, they can be costly and time consuming to construct, or even simply infeasible to deploy especially in dense, urban areas, where many of these buildings are. With radio technology, all we have to do is bring our fiber optic connection to one of the buildings in the radio network that covers a given area. That makes it incredibly fast and easy to implement and still delivers remarkable speeds, which can be comparable to a fiber optic connection, so we can serve more units more quickly.