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Using IR Lasers Instead of Fiber

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Old News by strictnein · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Slashdot has to have had an article on this... I saw a segment on these things on CNN over a year ago.

    Nothing new here... move along

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  2. Well... by Dominic_Mazzoni · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...if you're using "infrared line-of-sight infrared lasers", then it sounds to me like you've already got redundancy!