Have a look at www.lightpointe.com
Their technology is based on laser beam connection and they go up to 2.55
Gbps.

It's already in production level for quite some time and not experimental at
all...

Paul

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From: Jon Haworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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smashe d - Mar. 7, 2003


Hi Mary,

> 6.7 gigabytes of data across 6,800 miles in less
> than a minute.
>
> Wonder if this is faster than the speed of light?

The speed of light is approx. 186,000 miles/second, so no :-)

Cheers
Jon

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