The insatiable demand for licensed point-to-point wireless networks is a consequence of an almost incalculable rise in bandwidth consumption. The appetite for online communications is gathering momentum across all demographics and areas of human activity, business and personal-texting, blogs, podcasts, instant messaging; and personal networking sites such as Twitter. These, added to the downloading of content from the Internet across a dizzying array of music and entertainment, legal, governmental, and scientific applications consume spiraling volumes of bandwidth, sending networks racing to keep up. With 100 million annual downloads on YouTube alone, whole scales of measurement must be recalibrated to comprehend how great is the need for capacity, performance, and reliability.
According to Infonetics' Mobile Backhaul Equipment, Installed Base, and Services Report, numbers of mobile subscribers alone are projected to reach 4.4 billion worldwide in 2011, driven by an explosion in mobile data and video use, particularly on iPhones and their clones-requiring providers to significantly increase bandwidth offerings.
As these capacity demands soar and the numbers of devices and points on the network climb apace, Motorola is responding with an expansion of its offering into licensed microwave solutions; complementing its market leading unlicensed solutions, and meeting the full spectrum of broadband needs.

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