This makes them easy to set up--no tower or central antenna needed--as well as hard to knock out, since if one device goes down, the others will route around it.
"If WIMAX technology a technology a lot of folks are talking actually works you can put an antenna on a tower downtown and the whole downtown is connected with very fast broadband, " he says.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago-based organization considered an authority on such records, says an antenna is something simply added to the top of a tower that can be removed.