Talk:Free space optical communication

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I agree that these articles shoule be merged, wihout losing any of the relevant, not repeated, information. Jaraalbe 07:09, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Agreed, this page should be merged into Free-space optical communication. (The merge was proposed in April? Awfully long time ago.) - mako 07:06, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it seems the hyphenated form Free-space optics is fairly common. It's more grammatically correct, and "free-space optical communication" isn't all that common. - mako 07:10, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Free-space optical communication is more accurate and specific, though, since "free-space optics" are used for things besides communications.--12.30.114.20 21:58, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

Until someone can find a non-commercial website talking about free space optics, I've removed two commercial external links.--Dali-Llama 15:23, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Most of the links on the page are still to commercial sites or commercial sponsored sites. Maybe saying the sites are commercial would be best. And create a separate section that has links for the FSO vendors Garowetz 16:09, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I've edited the External Links section to better explain what the links are. I've added more vendor links so that there is a complete view of the market. In the second section on informational links I've noted which links are vendor sponsored. Garowetz 16:44, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speed

On a fiber optics discussion page someone said that this technology can be 50% faster than technology including an optic fiber. Are there sources on theoretical (and practical of course) speeds? --87.194.72.129 01:24, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:53, 24 January 2008 (UTC)