Airborne Lasers Make High-Speed Military Network Zip.
by coondoggie | November 6th, 2009
Ultra-high bandwidth lasers on manned and unmanned aircraft could soon be blasting military voice, video and data across the skies and to the ground if a hybrid optical laser system currently undergoing test pans out. The Air Force Research Laboratory has successfully tested high data-rate experiments using a free-space optical laser link, to send data across almost 22 miles from about 10,000 ft, in the air and on the ground, without interference at about 3Gbps, the Air Force stated. Full Story.
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