Microwaves are radio communication which carries wide bandwidth of data and can be ranging from 1 Ghz to  100Ghz.  the frequency utilization may fall under licensed or non-licensed.

• MW Radio Networks are terrestrial networks used as telecom backbone network infrastructure for transporting various telecom traffic such as voice, data and video traffic. In addition, MW radio networks are using for IP telecom traffic and TDM telecom traffic. MW Networks are engineered as point-to-point and/or Point-multi point networks.
• Depend upon the geographical contour, the point to point microwave communication can reach up to 100 kilometres in single  hop