Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!vector!nobody From: donp@apollo.COM (Don Preuss) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Laser Beam as a ethernet backbone Message-ID:Date: 7 Dec 88 22:37:00 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 196, message 6 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 -- Arpa: donp@apollo.com UUCP: uunet!mit-eddie!apollo!donp