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From: donp@apollo.COM (Don Preuss)
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Subject: Re: Laser Beam  as a ethernet backbone
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Date: 7 Dec 88 22:37:00 GMT
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The National Institutes of Health has one of these set up
between two buildings. It took the company a few
trys to get it right, and the latest I heard was that they
are still getting a large number of retransmits.

It would seem to me that you would get a "loss of signal" during rain
or snow storms. This doesn't seem like a wonderfully reliable
system unless there were some kind of backup.

Also, If the laser was strong enough to punch through the
rain, wouldn't you zap birds with it?

donp

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