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lasers are wireless and don't compete for spectrum. beam-forming with phased arrays is not quite as good, but still gives you more capacity than naively shared

by the8472 10y ago

lasers are wireless and don't compete for spectrum. beam-forming with phased arrays is not quite as good, but still gives you more capacity than naively shared spectrum would.

flukus 10y ago
This is laser based? Are the building ground stations everywhere too?
- the8472 10y ago
  The links to end-users use beam-steered microwaves, sat-sat links use laser. I was more making a more general statement: that wireless is not necessarily synonymous with shared medium.