Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!killer!vector!nobody From: kwongj@caldwr.UUCP (James Kwong) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Laser Beam as a ethernet backbone Message-ID:Date: 23 Nov 88 00:14:34 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Organization: California Department of Water Resources Lines: 20 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 186, message 1 Laser Communications, Inc. sells a laser beam product that - "Link Ethernet backbones atmospherically by laser beam to connect site up to 1 kilometer apart without cables or FCC licensing". The brochure says that speeds is up to 10 megabits per second in all weather. Low level output is harmless under even the most unlikely operating conditions. The price is around $14,000 for two units. Anyone has experience with this product or any similar product that they might want to share with me. Reply by e-mail would be fine. Thanks -- James Kwong Calif. Depart. of H2O Resources, Sacramento, CA 95802 caldwr!kwongj@ucdavis.edu(Internet) ...!ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!kwongj (UUCP) The opinions expressed above are mine, not those of the State of California or the California Department of Water Resources.