[geeks] Free Space Optics

[Caleb Shay]

On 2004-03-19 16:47:25 -0500 David Selders 
<david.selders at malleable.org> wrote:

> Does anyone out there have any experience with free space optics
> products from either Terabeam or Dominion Lasercom? 

I don't have experience with these specific companies, but I do have 
one important note for line of site networking.

Make sure nobody can get to it.

True story.

At $WORK-3 we had one of these setups and our connection kept going 
down on a regular basis.  Turned out there was a homeless guy living 
on the roof of the building who kept putting a sticky note over the 
lens because he thought it was watching him.

Cheers,

Caleb