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Light-based “LiFi” is stunningly fast, notably fragile—and now standardized (arstechnica.com)
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224GB/s, killer security, no radio interference—but you can't block the beam.

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[–] thevoyage@no.lastname.nz 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't really see the advantage over a fibre connection myself.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No wires for line of site. No digging, no runs, no fragile expensive tips, etc. That is if and when it stabilizes as a medium.

[–] thevoyage@no.lastname.nz 3 points 2 years ago

You then have a communication system that can be shut down by fog or heavy rain though.

It's slightly less stupid in interior applications, but data centre applications will almost always be better suited to wired.