White Papers
The following white papers provide detailed content on FSO technology trends, and optical wireless offerings for Enterprises and Mobile Carriers looking for high-speed connections across their campuses or mobile
wireless networks.
LightPointe- DualPath Architecture for Outdoor Wireless
Summary:
DualPath Architecture for outdoor wireless is the combination (blending) of two market-adopted outdoor wireless technologies to provide the highest available connectivity throughput and network uptime, more commonly referred to as "network availability". Only through an integrated, combined outdoor wireless solution can shortcomings of current stand-alone outdoor wireless products be addressed, resulting in new and improved alternatives for Enterprises and Mobile Carriers seeking to deploy point-to-point connections with true fiber-optic capacity and coveted 99.999% network availability. No standalone outdoor wireless product today can provide this fiber-like performance–let alone provide it both easily and economically. DualPath Architecture for outdoor wireless is a proprietary design platform patented by LightPointe in the United States and Europe (US 6,763,195 B1; and EP 1 249 084 B1). DualPath Architecture takes the best of existing standalone outdoor wireless products and combines them as an integrated and superior outdoor wireless point-to-point solution with seamless switching and Quality of Service (QoS) features.
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LightPointe- Next-Generation Power Innovation
for the FlightLite 100
Summary:
Power Over Ethernet (PoE) technology allows LAN equipment such as IP telephones, wireless LAN Access Points, and now–optical wireless link heads–to be powered over existing LAN cabling without modification to the existing Ethernet infrastructure. This power distribution technology is know as the international standard, IEEE802.af, and is now being incorporated into optical wireless systems, based on free-space optics (FSO) technology.
What You´ll Learn:
How PoE benefits optical wireless solutions to deliver lower total cost of ownership (T.O.C.) through simplified installation and a more efficient power source other than a traditional electrical source.
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Optical Wireless Solutions Based on Free-Space Optics
(FSO) Technology
Summary:
Today's information economy depends on the transmission of data, voice and multimedia across telecommunication networks. Despite new technologies that enable legacy copper telephone lines to carry information more efficiently, optical networks remain the most ideal medium for ultra high-bandwidth communications and true connectivity. There are two distinct types of optical communications: Fiber Optics (fiber-optic cable) and FSO. For long-haul network deployments, nothing is better than fiber. When coupled with new Dense Wavelength Division Multiplex (DWDM) technologies, fiber optics is capable of carrying information at 40 Gbps (gigabits per second). However, for making connections over relatively short distances in cities – the "last mile" between the fiber and the metro concentration of end users–fiber and FSO technology often rely on one another for success. In fact, FSO-based optical wireless solutions complement fiber optics in metro networks with considerably less expense, faster deployment, and flexible service rollouts in any network topology.
What You'll Learn:
This paper explores the parallel histories of fiber and FSO technology, and the emerging complementary Optical Wireless/Fiber landscape.
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Optical Wireless Security
Summary:
Network security is the number-one concern for any business or organization transporting sensitive and confidential information over the network. Such network security concerns involve the lowest network layer, typically referred to as the physical layer (layer one), as well as higher software layers of the networking protocols. Most of the interception activity by outside intruders occurs within higher protocol software layers. Password protection or data encryption are examples of counter measures to protect the network from outside and unwanted tampering. Intrusion of the physical layer itself can be another concern for network operators, although it is a far less likely target for unauthorized access to networking data. This can be a threat if information is transported over a copper-based infrastructure that can be easily intercepted, but FSO-based technology transmission is among the most secure connectivity solutions, regarding network interception of the actual physical layer. LightPointe's FSO-based optical wireless products are based on physical layer transport.
What You'll Learn:
This white paper focuses on security aspects involving the physical layer.
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