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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. Re:Old news by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hmm ... since you saw it a month ago, and you also visit Slashdot, you are actually the reason that Slashdot hasn't posted this article until now, as it's YOUR job to send in news. So please do us all a favor and shut the fuck up!

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