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Using IR Lasers Instead of Fiber

Posted by michael on Sunday February 10, 2002 @07:17PM from the can't-resist-a-laser-story dept.

Artifice_Eternity writes: "Can't deal with the trouble, time or expense of digging up the street to get fiberoptic cable to your building in the big city? There's another way...infrared line-of-sight infrared lasers between your building and another one nearby. Repeaters and redundancy can keep the chain going reliably for miles, with gigabit data transmission rates."

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Re:READ THE ARTICLE, PLEASE by resist97 · 2002-02-11 00:29 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I would like to read the article, but the link takes me to some NY times , sign up page, with extensive application requesting all kinds of personal data? Whats up with that ?