Using Light to Transfer Data

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Series: Digital Europe
Length: 06:33

Report on new technologies that will use light to transfer data at very high speeds in the office and home. Read the full description.

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From a bright idea, to laboratory testing and then to commercialization, the route technology takes is fairly well worn. But at almost every stage, intense competition can occur between technologies and also among rivals. And in one area of communications technology this competition is getting really hot. A Fraunhofer team working on devices to allow data transfer via visible light presented their results at the IFA Consumer Electronics trade fair in Berlin recently and they believe these devices will take data-by-light communications one step closer to our offices, homes and workplaces. Jonathan Gifford reports.

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From a bright idea, to laboratory testing and then to commercialization, the route technology takes is fairly well worn. But at almost every stage, intense competition can occur between technologies and also among rivals. And in one area of communications technology this competition is getting really hot. A Fraunhofer team working on devices to allow data transfer via visible light presented their results at the IFA Consumer Electronics trade fair in Berlin recently and they believe these devices will take data-by-light communications one step closer to our offices, homes and workplaces. Jonathan Gifford reports.

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Piece outcue: "... Jonathan Gifford for Deutsche Radio, Berlin."
Piece length: 5:47 with intro 6:33

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From a bright idea, to laboratory testing and then to commercialization, the route technology takes is fairly well worn. But at almost every stage, intense competition can occur between technologies and also among rivals. And in one area of communications technology this competition is getting really hot. A Fraunhofer team working on devices to allow data transfer via visible light presented their results at the IFA Consumer Electronics trade fair in Berlin recently and they believe these devices will take data-by-light communications one step closer to our offices, homes and workplaces. Jonathan Gifford reports.

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