Optical WLAN - Downloads At The Speed Of Light
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 18:20
in Physics & Chemistry
The future of networking may mean streaming high-definition movies at blazing fast speeds and the routers are the lights in the room.Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI in Berlin, Germany, have developed a new transfer technology for video data and were able to transfer data at a rate of 100 megabits per second (Mbit/s), without any losses, using LEDs in the ceiling that light up more than ten square meters (90 square feet). "This means that we transferred four videos in HD quality to four different laptops at the same time," says Dr. Anagnostis Paraskevopoulos from the HHI.read more