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> by preventing wall penetration, reducing jamming This is the main selling point I think, but not intentional jamming... regardless of the inherent lower late
by tomxor 3y ago
> by preventing wall penetration, reducing jamming
This is the main selling point I think, but not intentional jamming... regardless of the inherent lower latency, lower jitter and higher throughput, unlike wifi none of these aspects are hampered by proximity to adjacent signals from other networks and other EM sources.
Even if people don't want to kit out their entire house a la PoE, it would be a nice benefit to have this work side by side with wifi... bad signal? just walk into the room with the router, auto switch to lifi and it's effectively as good as wired. Also more devices automatically using lifi when wifi is not necessary will alleviate interference for everything and everybody else where it's actually necessary. It's a win win technology.
It's also interesting to see something move (relatively) quickly from experiment to standards proposal. I suppose that's due to the practicality of this tech.
- drjasonharrison 3y agoIn high density living (condo towers, downtown etc), it is common to have interference from neighbor's wifi network on the same floor or adjacent floors. Having a network that expands using a non-interfering frequency would be a godsend. Especially given the limited number of channels for existing WiFi standard.