Twisted light wireless “could make fibre-optics obsolete”

[HEXUS]

Team hope free space OAM transmissions can be used for last mile connections in cities.

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[peterb]

Interesting artice, but I wonder what happens in fog, heavy rain or snow?

[zsde]

Interesting artice, but I wonder what happens in fog, heavy rain or snow?

Probably the same that happens to mobile signals in the same conditions. The signal quality deteriorates.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The Pigeon-Crow alliance might have something to say about all of this.

[peterb]

Probably the same that happens to mobile signals in the same conditions. The signal quality deteriorates.

[syristix]

Made me think of that movie Heat where Kelso says to DeNiro...

"They send this information out, I mean it's just beamed out all over the damn place. You just gotta know how to grab it.."

[Biscuit]

Sensationalist headline methinks.

Another one of these technologies thats cool, but will never quite offer the same bombproof reliability of a proper physical connection.

[Rubarb]

why anyone uses wireless when they dont have to is simply beyond me?

wire is easier to hack unlike a port where you have to be in the building and plug in <slaps head> just because you can make something doesn't mean you should.