Excellent post, Jack, and very funny in one spot.
"...no doubt somewhere in these archives you've all discussed terabeam and airfiber. so perhaps all i need is a reference post for this."
Yes, we've discussed Terabeam here some, and to some degree discussed some of the improvements they've allegedly incorporated in their design, compared to earlier generations of i-r free space gear. Air Fiber and OpticAir from LU also have improved designs, but these are primarily designed as point to point systems, whereas TB's is point-to-multipoint. Here are some of the posts that I've made here, and you can link up or down from any of them to see what others have had to say.
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Also, try eyeballing the list for some Dave Horne's messages where he's posted some excellent product descriptions, as well. And there are many more producers of i-r systems, incidentally, than the three we've been discussing here.
For example, the three makes who I was most familiar with right up through 1996 when I was assisting the city university system here, were American Laser Systems, Isher Systems, and Silcom Ltd. Isher, which was a small independent military supplier turned civilian enterprise, is no longer in the same business, due to the death of its owner during the transition period.
I'd like to look more closely into NT's move in this space.
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