2023-07-14 16:24:43
At this point in the championship, everyone is already quite familiar with the Wi-Fibut there is another type of network, called Li-Fiwhat do you use luz in place of radio frequencies to transmit data at an absurdly higher speed. In development for a few years, this standard might be very close to becoming the connection type of time.
That’s because Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) certified last Wednesday (7/12) the standard 802.11bb, which establishes the specifications for communication between devices through light. This might very well be the first step towards the popularization of technology, which promises to be faster and safer even than 5G.
By using light to transfer data, Li-Fi manages to “confine” a network to just one room in a house, for example, offering more security for the connection. For this, the technology uses LEDs that blink at a frequency imperceptible to the human eye, offering speeds of up to 224Gbps.
Nikola Serafimovski, Vice President of Standardization at pureLiFi — company that helped launch 802.11bb — commented on the certification:
The launch of the IEEE 802.11bb standard is a significant moment for the wireless communications industry. Thanks to the work of the group responsible for 802.11bb, Li-Fi has attracted the interest of some of the biggest players across the industry, from semiconductor companies to leading mobile phone manufacturers. We worked with these key stakeholders to create a standard that provides what the industry needs to adopt Li-Fi at scale.
In practice, it will be possible to use a residence’s own lighting system — such as a lamp or table lamp — as a kind of router. In a way, the technology is very similar to good old fiber optics — with the exception that the light is not “trapped” in a glass cable.
Apple, it’s worth noting, has experimented with the technology in the past. In 2016, a line of code that references the technology was found in iOS, suggesting that Apple would already be testing this new standard at least since the iPhone 7. As it has been a good few years since the episode, it is possible that the technology is now much more mature.
Could this be the beginning of the end for Wi-Fi? ????
via AppleInsider
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