Use of high speed radio frequency protocols for communication with pipeline pigs and inspection tools

A method of high speed radio frequency communication between an outside of a metallic pipeline and an interior volume contained by the metallic pipeline, the method comprising:

• passing a high speed radio frequency signal through one or more communication stents located along, and contained by, a wall of the metallic pipeline, said communication stents each being a cylindrical-shaped communication stent arranged perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the metallic pipeline;
• each said communication stent further comprising a high speed radio frequency permittive material and a wrapper located about the permittive material;
• the permittive material and the wrapper differing from one another in compressive strength, the wrapper spanning at least an entire thickness of the wall, the permittive material having one end extending past an inner diameter of the wall into the interior volume of the metallic pipeline and another end extending past an outer diameter of the wall to the outside of the metallic pipeline.