Li-Fi - the cutting edge Wi-Fi successor

[Manny]

Keen to see this in action on our devices:

[video=youtube;wqH9KX9o0vg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqH9KX9o0vg[/video]

Super impressive speeds!

 

[JPixel]

It's a very interesting technology and looks quite promising. The only thing I don't understand is that it needs line of sight to work. Also, it emits light - so no connection when you are trying to sleep?

We'll see where it goes.

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[Manny]

It's a very interesting technology and looks quite promising. The only thing I don't understand is that it needs line of sight to work. Also, it emits light - so no connection when you are trying to sleep?

We'll see where it goes.

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Yeah, it would have that kind of limitation. But just imagine for LAN gaming - it could be a practical successor to carrying a switch and all that messy lan cables for setting up.

 

[PotShot-RSA]

I saw on ted.com how they can use solar panels to read signals from LED lights and they were saying even street lights could be used for broadcasting in future.

Harald Haas: Forget Wi-Fi. Meet the new Li-Fi Internet | TED Talk | TED.com

 

[Jitz04]

It's a very interesting technology and looks quite promising. The only thing I don't understand is that it needs line of sight to work. Also, it emits light - so no connection when you are trying to sleep?

We'll see where it goes.

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True to an extent, a typical infra-red television remote for example, low powered and all it needs to transmit is a button press or two at a time, now think of Li-Fi which works on the same premise but more closer to the Ultraviolet spectrum, this allows it to transmit almost a million times that information with the same characteristics of the TV remote that being if it is commercialized it won't be visible to human eye and it will require line of sight to work but can bounce of walls..

Interesting nevertheless but it could be years before seen in South Africa.

 

[Manny]

The number of network/internet access options is growing like crazy, at least for first-world countries. They are reaching a point where nobody with some kind of smart device can escape the internet