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Lasers could take broadband where fiber optics can’t | CNN Business

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Virginia -based company Attochron says it’s ready to launch its own version of “free-space optics” technology.

The technology uses lasers to transfer data through the air, but the technology has always faced an unavoidable obstacle: weather.

FSO broadband has yet to materialize as a commercial reality.

Attochron will sell the links to broadband providers and carriers who will install them and charge a monthly fee.

The company is looking beyond last-mile corporate connectivity, too, citing uses in the military sector.

Experts say the technology seems sound on paper, but technical challenges remain due to the fact that the laser pulses it uses are very fast.

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