Wireless Optical Broadband
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As the name implies, free space optics uses light to transmit data, much the same way as fiber optics systems but through the air, not over a fiber line. Founded in 1996, SkyFiber is hardly a new company, but for most of its existence it’s been flying under the radar, researching optical technologies and accruing patents. According to CEO David Achim, its success in patenting much of free space optics intellectual property is what forced Terabeam to ultimately get out of the business. Last year, SkyFiber decided that its technology and its market were ready for commercial deployments. It raised $32 million in venture funding and began trialing its equipment with local governments and wireless operators and is now set to start selling its SkyLink product commercially.
“Free space optics was an overhyped, overpromised and under-delivered technology that left a bad taste in people’s mouths’,” Achim said, explaining why the technology fell off the radar after Terabeam’s initial trials. But SkyFiber has managed to optimize the technology to overcome its original shortcomings, which were primarily related to range and weather conditions...
http://connectedplanetonline.com/3g4g/news/skyfiber-optical-wireless-061610/
“Free space optics was an overhyped, overpromised and under-delivered technology that left a bad taste in people’s mouths’,” Achim said, explaining why the technology fell off the radar after Terabeam’s initial trials. But SkyFiber has managed to optimize the technology to overcome its original shortcomings, which were primarily related to range and weather conditions...
http://connectedplanetonline.com/3g4g/news/skyfiber-optical-wireless-061610/
