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To: MangoBoy who wrote (149)	3/24/2000 1:39:00 PM
From: FLSTF97	Respond to of 227

The statement about reflective coatings not stopping the beam really make me wonder. Some of these coatings are extremely thin films of gold or silver. Their near IR reflectance are over 80%. It seems that that would at a minimum affect the max range if not remove a large portion of the available bandwidth even well within the max range. FATBOY

To: MangoBoy who wrote (149)	3/24/2000 2:08:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 227

Hesse says birds flying through the beam will not interrupt the data flow, which continues until 85 percent of the beam is occluded. That's BS. So 15% occlusion will not hurt his data flow? And what will a bird do, transmit 15% of the IR beam? LOL Maybe he means he will be ok if only 15% of the bird flies through the beam. Let's see, a bird interrupting the beam for 1/100 of a second might in a 100mbps beam would block 1 mb. So instead of 1mb, he drops 150kb. Sounds significant to me. And he is going to beam this in windows, right? Isn't that where birds like to hang out?