German Scientists' Visible Light Network Hits 3Gbps

Mark.JUK writes "Scientists working at Berlin's Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute have developed new components that can turn standard 'off-the-shelf' LED room lights into an Optical Wireless Local Area Network (OWLAN) that delivers data transmission rates of up to 3Gbps. The new kit is an extension of HHI's earlier work, which in 2011 delivered the first 800Mbps capable network using ordinary flashing LED lights. Since then the kit has been improved to achieve a transmission rate of 1Gbps per single light frequency (basic LEDs usually use up to three light frequencies) and the operating bandwidth has been pushed to 180MHz from 30MHz."

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Any wireless network is going to need encryption. This is the reason why we have WPA for our radio frequency wireless networks. You could probably use the exact same security protocols as I'm pretty sure they don't depend on the medium you are transferring over.