Old technology pushes new digital data capabilities

Typically we'll feature a product item in this section, but there's a great article detailing how one hospital is using wireless optical, which has helped increase productivity, data safety and security and boost the bottom line. New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center began deploying optical wireless a few years back, using LightPointe as a backup link between two buildings. The technology, which provides transmission speeds of 1 Gbps, is letting the medical facility share data between locations at higher speeds and at lower costs than previous networking solutions. It's not a new tool by any means, having been developed over 40 years ago, but the line-of-sight technology, which utilizes light beams as a primary data path, is getting new respect. It's easy to deploy and support. Yet as some analysts note, it could be quickly replaced once WiMax actually hits the enterprise.

Fore more on optical wireless use:
- read this article at Computerworld