Although licensed-band and unlicensed-band equipment can operate cooperatively to serve a wide variety of applications for wireless communications, there has been a long-standing debate over which is the better technology. This licensed-versus-unlicensed debate should now be reconsidered in light of new technologies that provide high-availability links in the unlicensed spectrum. This paper discusses performance in the licensed versus unlicensed band.

Read this white paper to find out how three major assumptions made by organizations about licensed microwave links are misleading.