In the modern era, semaphores and wireless solar telegraphs called heliographs were developed, using coded signals to communicate with their recipients. In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter created the Photophone, at Bell’s newly established Volta Laboratory in Washington, DC. The Ancient Greeks used a coded alphabetic system of signalling with torches developed by Cleoxenus, Democleitus and Polybius. Optical communications, in various forms, have been used for thousands of years. Light travels through air faster than it does through glass, so it is fair to classify FSO technology as optical communications at the speed of light. The use of light is a simple concept similar to optical transmissions using fiber-optic cables the only difference is the medium.
Free Space Optics connectivity doesn’t require expensive fibre-optic cable and removes need for securing spectrum licenses for radio frequency (RF) solutions. Today, FSO technology – pioneered and championed by CableFree’s optical wireless offerings – has enabled the development of a new category of outdoor wireless products that can transmit voice, data, and video at bandwidths up to 1.25 Gbps. Introduction to Free Space Optics CableFree Free Space OpticsįSO is a line-of-sight wireless communication technology that uses invisible beams of light to provide high speed wireless connections that can send and receive voice, video, and data information. OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing).MIMO Radio Antenna Technology White Paper.802.11ay wireless technology: Next-gen 60GHz WiFi.CableFree MMW E-Band Regulation by OFCOM in the UK.XPIC – Cross Polarization Interference Cancellation.