"We call this technology a 'wireless fiber patch cord' because it offers the blistering speed of fiber optics without the physical cables," said Payam Heydari , NCIC Labs director, UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and senior author of both papers. "By operating in the F-band – a frequency range well above current 5G standards – we can offer massive bandwidths that will transform how machines, robots and data centers communicate." Read More